_ 147 _ a tarrada(A) arrived from Ormuz with some very sad and discouraging news. It reported that our fortress in Muscat, which seemed impregnable, had been captured by four Mamluk galleys and the Captain, Joao de Lisboa, made a prisoner and captive with seventy Portuguese and one hundred and fifty slaves. The artillery of the fort, which was very heavy and fine, was all taken, and fifteen thousand pardaus surrendered to them. When the Mamluks had collected the money and possessions that they found there, with their business complete, they left with much bragging to help the other Turks who were bombarding the fortress of Ormuz.(B) Lest I forget the purpose which prompted me to write this to you, one of our Fathers, a Basque, named Miguel da Nobrega who had been two years in this College(C) and had been ordained for mass because he had given great (A) Tarrada: a small sailing vessel. See note 3 above. (B) Cf note 32. (C) The former mentions this, Father. In the year 1551 he worked on the island of Chorao; between the years 1553-54 he was captive in the city of Cairo, from where he returned to Ormuz. In 1555 he was once more living in the College of Goa, where he died in 1558 (Polanco Chron II p 399; MI Epp. VII 446-54; Goa 8 I 95-96; Ulyss I 217: Ulyss 2 142r).
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