_ 175 _ the winter(A) twenty sailing ships and be ready so that, in July, he would be with the fleet at the bar in Surrate, with many good people and well supplied with artillery and munitions. They caught sight of a nau which they attacked and fought fiercely, because the nau was supplied with provisions and munitions, which the captain had stored separated from the passengers, since he was carrying many Turks, Abyssinians, Khunasanis(B) who are fighting men, plus forty pieces of artillery. It was necessary to bombard it heavily, until the mast fell into the sea and the helm was broken. Thus, they boarded and took the ship, which was said to be very rich. The Cassis(C) and people of the nau, all followers [163v] of Mohammed, were carrying in the spar of the nau thirty thousand Venetians(D) in offerings which they had taken for the house of Mecca. These fell into the sea but I am sure they will not escape some good diver. 7. They then took another, which belonged to the Grand (A) In the rainy season, June, July and August. (B) Khorasan, a region in the south-eastern part of Persia. For these warlike people, see Correa IV 569; Shurhammer, Quellen nn 2638 3217 3551 4231; Aein p 728 (Khurasan). (C) Caciz: ‘Muslem priest’ (Dalgado I 165). (D) Venetian ‘Old Venetian coin of gold which was used in India and was worth 420 reis in the sixteenth century’ (Dalgado II 411).
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