_ 87 _ dering the Captain blames the soldiers for, and the soldiers the Captain; for the present nothing further is known in respect to this than all are to blame for this show of guilty weakness. The fleet was sighted from this island at day dawn of Monday the nineteenth of September; it consisted of twenty five galleys and three high decked ships, and one small catur this fleet when it departed from Suez numbered twenty five galleys and two galleons at Adem one of these galleons was lost which has on board two quartaos (twelve pounders) and a large quantity of other artillery as well as all the shot powder and ammunition of the fleet; this vessel was lost at a sand shallow and after Pirebeque had already left for this place, nothing was saved but the men who all returned to Meque: the other galleon which had on board one Espalhafato (a kind of cannon) and some ammunition. Also, came on here with the galleys, and the other two ships and the small catur they took at Mascate; the whole fleet Just as it arrived made for Caum and anchored there at eight o'clock in the day, and the galleys at once proceeded to dismast and make their preparations for landing the men. Some seven or eight horsemen were there of ours, and during this first skirmish they wounded, with a musket shot, the horse of Estevam Lourenço do Avelar, a
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