_ 465 _ the Viceroy Dom Constantino I commence anew to serve, and I went with him in a foist to Damão, and from there he sent me to the Strait with Dom Alvaro de Silveira, in which voyage I accompanied him the best I could up to his death, in the Strait of Baçora. In Barem, where I was captured by a principal Captain who was there of the Turk, called Soltão Ale, who, owing to being a Persian by nationality, and some enterprise of his which brought me there having miscarried, he told me one day, that he desired to serve the King of Portugal, Our Lord, and that he would deliver up Catifa of which he was the Captain, and that with small favour and help he would gain him Baçora, with forces from the Persians and of the Gizares, where he is very well known, and holds a high name, for which he would take his pay and the expenses out of what would be gained, and as he came very often to treat upon this, he released me, so that I shoulbe free to go, asking me to bear in mind his affairs. A few days after this, Dom Antão arrived to Barem. I gave him an account of this that passed in which he was very grateful and later on sent me to Catifa where he had already gone to. In a small bark one night, and there I arranged with him to deliver up the fortress as he had promised me, and which I considered as surrendered, and
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