_ 49 _ the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, always sent specially marked galleys to Alexandria without hindrance, first from Rhodes and later from Malta, with plenipotentiaries engaged in the ransoming of captive Christians. These were deliberately taken for that purpose from the whole of the Turkish empire to that port. The fact is that ransoms generated good money for the followers of Islam... The two other foists from the squadron of the wounded Cristovão Pereira Homem, commanded by Victor Carvalho and Roque Pinheiro, managed to escape and arrived in Goa at the end of April of that same year; but their captains were arrested and punished by D. Constantino, who would have preferred them dead rather than fugitives, even from an overwhelmingly superior force. That was the chivalric excellence required of all Portuguese soldiers. Zafar's final sortie appears to have been in 1561 during the Viceroyalty of the Count of Redondo, who ordered D. Francisco Mascarenhas to leave in November with two galleons, twenty-three foists and six hundred and fifty men, to protect the carracks of Ormuz against the pirates. The fleet went to take on water in the island of Vacas off Jakad. Immediately afterwards, Zafar arrived with the same idea, but warned by some fishermen, he fled to his hideout in Mocha, without any possibility of his being
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