_ 52 _ defeat on him, but we paid for it with a high price in lives lost by sickness. The facts can be summarized as follows: The Turkish emperor ordered one of his captains to capture Bahrain by surprise and in Basra he gave him two galleys, seventy terradas, one brigantine, one thousand two hundred janissaries and the Persian emir Sultan Ali, an ex-captain of El Katiff, who had rebelled against the Shah, together with his people. As guazil of Bahrain, representing the King of Ormuz was Reis Murad, the son-in-law of Reis Nur-al-Din, the guazil of Ormuz. He had four hundred men and four or five Portuguese. These sent a warning to Ormuz. D. Antão de Noronha who was the captain of the fortress, he immediately assigned his nephew D. João de Noronha to provide initial help, with ten oared boats. At the same time, he ordered D. Alvaro da Silveira to be summoned by Muscat. At the latitude of the island of Samaim, two leagues from Bahrain, D. João saw the galleys pursuing the ship of one of the Melo brothers and he attacked them. The galleys escaped and dropped anchor. As it was already evening, D. João, who was very young,
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