_ 12 _ raizing her to the ground, as I had ordered him to do, he entered with some rowing vessels the River Eufrates in the middle of which stands the island of Morzy, so greatly renowned, and which the Turks hold in such regard, and he likewise raized to the ground the fortress they had made there, and from then he went up the river to Baçora and close upon it he captured two vessels; and he leisurely examined all the river and the land and all things appertaining to them and which were necessary should be investigated. In doing this the Turks took great affront, and were so startled that though he took but a small fleet because the large vessels he had sent on to Ormuz, and in them some of the men and the wounded and sick for there only remained to him the rowing vessels, yet nevertheless Baçora was held as taken, and the Turks remained so discredited at beholding the fleet so close upon them, and the Arabians with such courage by its favour, that they of themselves without Portuguese fell upon a Fortress which the Turks held on the side of Persia and took it and broke it down. Dom Amtão served in this so honourably Your Highness, and all those who went with him, that in truth he is to be envied both on account of the feat they performed,
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