The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 80 _ country, which is characteristically healthy in June, July, August and part of September, but in the months of October and November there is a kind of plague. The locals say that when a star appears in the south, which the oxen and cattle notice first, it is a sign of this atrocious weather, and in order to learn if the star has appeared they observe the cattle and see them moving about as if terrified. That is what happened and everyone who mentioned the matter became III, but it pleased Our Lord that only children and a woman died. Form Moghistan Alvaro Mendes

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