_ 335 _ of Sohar, twelve leagues from Muscat. With this news, he embarked and gave orders for the fleet to be adorned with flags. He then set sail in pursuit of the galleys and, on 25 August, the feast day of St. Luis the Confessor, they were sighted at nine in the morning. When Ali Chelebi saw the galleons, he thought they were merchant vessels, because he had left the fleet behind in very bad weather. Fifteen days had passed from the time he had lost sight of it up to that moment, so he presumed they had returned to Ormuz. All the galleys came rowing along the coast in line-ahead, with the wind at their prows. Among the islets two leagues from Muscat, they came across the cleanest and most beautiful beach that exists on the entire Arabian coast. The captain major ringed the sea with his entire fleet, so that the galleys would not be able to escape from him and he went in their pursuit with the oared ships in the vanguard, and the caravels immediately behind them. The galleons were spread out over the sea, all bedecked with flags, and they were a wonderful sight to see. When Ali Chelebi saw that he was confined to the coast and being forced close to the shore by the prows of our ships, and that it was now impossible for him to double
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