_ 125 _ brought to us by the foists coming from the Strait in May, nevertheless the Viceroy paid no heed, and at the beginning of September news came that the Turks were in Adem, and were going upon Ormuz, and the state that the Viceroy still paid no heed, and subsequently there came a cature from Ormuz today, that the Turks were at the Cape of Rosalgate already, and giving inwards, and that they had a fleet of twenty five sails, then only did he begin to prepare. But in such a slow manner that the Turks had time to take Mascate with sixty Portuguese, and there was at the time as Captain one Antonio de Lisboa and it was given up without any fighting, for had he fought against the whole power of the Turk he might have embarrassed him, but he was only a Chatim who bought the fortress with money, and from Mascate they went to Ormus and sacked the city and bombarded the Fortress and made for Baçora and all through his great delay and small care, and on the twentieth of November the Viceroy being very much at his ease in Chaul with the fleet, there arrived Fernão Farto from Ormuz with the news the Turks had gone towards Baçorá. Senhor, all the time was spent in playing at tilts and pleasure. All anxiety is placed in gathering together money by every means and manners, that it can be done, some by
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