_ 327 _ Dom Fernando handed it over to Manuel de Vasconcelhos, (about whom we spoke many times in the siege of Diu) who was the father-in-law of Diogo de Mesquita and of Pantaleão de Sá, an old nobleman of great intelligence. The viceroy ordered him to embark with this son so as to advise him in everything because he was to winter there with the fleet, and it was essential for Dom Fernando to cross over to Ormuz. When it was learned there that Bernardim de Sousa had not yet gone on ahead, he dispatched five oared ships to wait for him off Cape Ras-el-Had to collect the merchant ships. When these ships arrived at the Cape, Bernardim de Sousa immediately went to meet them, but because the wind was head-on, he changed over to the oared ships and made for Muscat where he found Dom Fernando, who received him well. A few days later, the carracks of Bernardim de Sousa's company arrived, and he left with them and Dom Fernando for Ormuz, where they were received very hospitably and Dom Antão de Noronha handed over the fortress to Berdardim de Sousa. He then took over his galleon, which he straightaway ordered to Muscat to winter with the others.
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