_ 187 _ (21) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1553) Father Alexo Dias sent a letter to Father Luis Gonçalves da Camara, Ormuz, on the 24th of September 1553, mentioning what happened after the battle between the Turks and the Portuguese, south of Ras al-Hadd:(21) 1. I wrote to Your Reverence from Cochin to tell you that Father Master Gaspar [Barzeu] was sending Father António [de Herédia] to Ormuz and had ordered Father Master Gonçalo [Rodrigues] to come there from Ormuz because he was unwell. Father, as Our Lord is willing to reward me in this world for some service before I have performed one, He is doing me a great favour in that I am being sent to Ormuz as his companion. The solace that my soul receives from this
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