_ 107 _ and all the powder, shot and munitions which he lost in one of the shallows in Adem, after Barba Negra had left for this place, the two ships and the catur he took in Mascate; he performed here what I have already written to Your Worship, that he took a large ship belonging to João Nunes a man of Chaul, and after remaining here sixteen days they proceeded to the island of Queixome. Which lies three leagues from this place, where all the principal men and merchants of this city had gone to with a large quantity of merchandize, gold and silver and money coins, all which the Turks had taken without any thing escaping their hands, and believe me, Your Worship, that this was the richest prize that could be taken in the world, and all these things did Peri Beque effect with only seven hundred service men of the sea, and a flock of galleys. While in this fortress there were seven hundred fighting men, many of them of good rank and the most splendid musketry that could be had; and could we know anything of the Turks we might yet take back the artillery and work them a sad damage, and by what it appears, the Turk ordered Peribeque not to besiege Ormuz until he should first proceed to Baçorá to take on men to do so, but he, owing to the weakness he found in Mascate judged that all in like manner would be in the same condition
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