_ 15 _ respective Captains, Garcia de Saa and Dom Jeronimo de Castelo Branquo and Jeronimo de Moraes and Belchior Botelho son of Symam Botelho. Besides all this I had some vessels taken belonging to merchants who were proceeding with goods to Ormuz in which I told off some men which had been unable to go in the ships of the fleet, and food supplies. I had very good weather from Goa to Ormuz, and we went in very few days, and found all very nearly ready of what was needed for the fleet to take, both the one taken from Goa, as for the one that was made in Ormuz to proceed in its company, and for as much as he would have to delay at Ormuz some days he sent before hand Manuel de Vasconcellos with certain vessels to defend any relief that might come by sea to Catifa. In order to sight the land and reconnoiter where the disembarkation could best take place, and departed from the day he arrived to Ormuz in eighteen days with a thousand Portuguese men, and who by the way they carried out the action fully proved themselves to be such, and there went with him Rex Harafo who, despite his advanced age, would not allow his son to go instead of him, and Mirmama Haa a very honourable Moor, and a Knight cousin of the King of Ormuz with some of the native men.
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