_ 239 _ In the same year (1553) Events occurred when Piri Bey appeared before the Turks in Constantinople, and we mention those events from the book: "Lendas da India", by Gaspar Correia:(25) The Pasha Piribec appears before the Turk in Constantinople, and what happens to him. The Turk orders Moradobec with fifteen galleys to guard the Strait of Basra. Dom Diogo de Noronha, the general of our fleet meets up with them. Gonçalo Pereira Marramaque in the galleon engages them all in fierce battle, and its outcome. After the report arrived in Constantinople, which the Pasha of Basra had sent to the Turk about what Piri Reis had done in Muscat and Ormuz; that he had left with three galleys and that a powerful Portuguese fleet, which had gone to the relief of its fortress, was in Ormuz, (25) Document no. and reference.
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