_ 241 _ as that Lord, even though a heathen, tolerates no contravention of his commands on account of any influence or intimacy, he ordered him to be decapitated immediately and for the Portuguese to be put in the galleys, from where the majority where later ransomed. Of these, some reached India and other places. Barbarossa made such good progress that he arrived in Basra at the end of July [1553]. He equipped the fifteen galleys as best he could and, provided with the finest artillery and men that he could arrange, he put to sea in August. Dom Diogo de Noronha had also left Ormuz at the beginning of the same month with his entire fleet and, while stationed off Cape Mussendum, he dispatched Gomes de Siqueira and Luis de Aguiar to Basra to spy on the galleys, if they received news about them one of them was to bring it to him and the other to continue spying. When these ships arrived at the mouth of the River Euphrates, they captured a terranquin with some Moors, who told them that Barbarossa was under sail ready to depart. One of the ships took this news to Dom Diogo, who immediately told it to return and join the other and to bring him the news as soon as the galleys should leave.
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