_ 187 _ Mascarenhas, the deaf one, was captain of Ormuz, at his command I came with news of the victory which Count Dom Luis de Ataide and the other captains and fortresses had in India, when everything was under siege; I gave the letters to the ambassador in Rome, Don Juan Tello, who sent them to Portugal. When Dom Diego de Meneses was captain, I went to Basra at his command to obtain information about the galleys, and I went on to Constantinople; and by order of Dom Diego, when he succeeded António Moniz, I came to Portugal with letters from him, and I went by sea with Dom Luis, who wintered in Moçambique, and from there he sent me to Portugal again. I went to Tripoli in Syria, and brought the news of the death of King Sebastião the letters they carry. What he told me to tell Your Majesty is as follows: The message that the Viceroy of Naples sent to the Grand Sophy by an Armenian called Johan Baptista was given to him, and the Armenian, fearing to return by land, went on to Goa with a present from the Sophy to Your Majesty. Finding him there. Dom Francisco de Mascarenhas made him return with Fr. Simão to Persia. The present is to come with the ships which are now awaited, brought by a son of his whom he left in Goa.
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