_ 13 _ as for the reason Your Highness will have for showing him favour. Last year, I wrote to Your Highness that on reaching this, there came the news that the Turks had taken Catifa which the Arabians had given them of their own accord, and that they were fortifying it, and that it also seemed as though they would give them Baram also: the Captain who should be placed there to be a Parsee (?) a nephew of Rex Harafa, and that they came with the intention of going along conquering the coast of Arabia, and take Mascate, and that I had held a council on the subject and all those who discussed with me seemed to judge it very necessary to retake Catifa and strive to cast the Turks out of that coast, and then I departed for Goa to issue orders for so doing. As soon as I reached Goa, I began to make the fleet in which it seemed there should go a thousand Portuguese men, and three thousand Moors, vassals of the King of Ormuz, and this appeared to be a sufficient number for such an undertaking, and whereas it is a thing of so much importance and of service to Your Highness. I ordered that there should proceed in this fleet as Captain in Chief Dom Amtão de Noronha both on account of the experience I had of him, as because for such an affair
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