_ 130 _ On the 20th of August, ten days after Afonso de Albuquerque triumphed in Socotra, he left with Tristao da Cunha for India which he planned to conquer with seven caravelles, the six ships were captained respectively by Francisco de Tavora, Manuel Telles, Afonso Lopes da Costa, Antonio do Campo, and João da Nova, he himself sailing as Captain in Chief. They also took a fusta which was built in Socotra captained by Nuno Vaz de Castello Branco. He took up to four hundred and sixty fighting men. As the bad weather prevented him from navigating the straits to the Red Sea, he sailed on up the Arabian coast, passing Cape Ras al Hadd to that part of the coast where the kingdom of Ormuz begins. Ptolemy called it the promontory of Siragro and located it at fourteen degrees latitude north, but we have verified it to the twenty-two and half degrees. The first place in the kingdom of Ormuz where Afonso de Albuquerque arrived was called Kalhat, which is twenty leagues from the Cape. Its ruins and buildings showed that in times past it has been quite a popular city. According to the locals an earthquake had left it in the state Afonso de Albuquerque found it, which is a small town with walls, towers, houses and windows in the Spanish style. Because it was by the sea and had a well, and
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