_ 47 _ galliot appeared out at sea on its way from Ormuz. At the sight of this, the captive Portuguese revolted, attacked and killed the Turks and set fire to the brigantine. But fickle fate contrived to allow Zafar another encounter with the carracks, which he once again captured, together with Lobato's galliot, and he took all of them to Mocha. Zafar crushed us because he devoted himself exclusively to piracy. He possessed the guile to avoid larger fleets and he only ventured against our warships when he surprised them in complete inferiority of numbers and power. He harassed us again on two more occasions before disappearing from the chronicles. However, he left a successor in his method of naval warfare, the celebrated Mirale-beg, whose history, transcribed from the Etiópia Oriental of Friar João dos Santos, is related in an earlier chapter. The prowess of Zafar, following in chronological order just like the foregoing, had no military importance, but is also mentioned so that nothing is hidden, either for or against. It was in 1560 that the Viceroy D. Constantino de Bragança, ordered the Jesuit father Fulgencio Pires to be taken to Abyssinia. He was the bearer of a large quantity of religious objects destined for the new churches already built or under construction by our
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