_ 238 _ he pursued the galleys, which were hugging the coast. Our light ships went to attack the carrack that was fleeing from them, until they forced it aground on the island of Qishn, where the Turks jumped into the sea to save themselves ashore, but most of them perished by the sword and the carrack fell into our hands with all its treasures. Dom Diogo de Noronha continued his pursuit of the galleys, which were insinuating themselves between the islands and the mainland, where our galleons were unable to go. They sailed in this way for seven successive days until they entered the Strait of Basra and the mouth of the river Euphrates, followed by our fleet, which blocked them in. When Dom Diogo de Noronha saw them berthed, as he had nothing else to do there, he returned to Mussendom, where he decided to patrol while the westerlies persisted. When they died down, he returned to Ormuz to prepare to leave for India, as his orders dictated.
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