_ 232 _ who told them that Barbarossa was under sail with the galleys ready to depart. One of the ships left with this information and the other remained on guard. When Dom Diogo de Noronha received the message, he prepared his fleet very thoroughly and sent the ship back to join the other, so that they would bring him news of when the galleys left. Meanwhile, he decided to sail from Cape Mussendom to the island of Henjam, where the galleys would have to call. As it was already the end of August, the foist of Dom Diogo de Noronha arrived and told him that fifteen galleys were following in their wake. Just after this news, these began to appear along the coast of Persia under full sail, driven by a westerly wind. Dom Diogo de Noronha was anchored of the Arabian coast with the whole of his fleet. On receiving the message, he ordered anchors to be weighed, and sails set, and he crossed to the Persian coast. On arriving within firing range of the galleys, he exchanged broadsides with them, because he did not dare to go closer inshore where the galleys were heading while firing their artillery. By a stroke of bad luck, a shot from the bridge (of a galley) struck the galleon of the captain-major on his leeward at the waterline. It penetrated it and it began to take on so much water that it was on its way to
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