_ 135 _ their houses, sacking their farms and finally setting fire to the village and to ten zambucos and to three or four naos that were in the port. In this operation we lost three men and had twenty or more wounded. Along the streets of the village more than seventy dead Moors were counted, having punished this village and finding nothing more to do there Afonso de Albuquerque left for another place called Muscat, about eight leagues away. Muscat was much stronger than the previous places. It has letter walls lowers and bastions and they were all freshly repaired, it also had much ammunition for defence purposes and people from the interior to help. As this town was nearer to Ormuz, the king, who was well aware of the power of our armada and had experience of some of his ships being taken by us in India. Had made sure that all the places along that coast, and especially Muscat, had their defences freshly repaired. When Alfono de Albuquerque saw this and how formidable were the defenses, he realized that they would be received with arrows. He therefore sent Antonio do Campo in his battle to the governor of Muscat with a message. With him went Pero Vaz, factor of the armada, because he knew Arabic. In reply the governor sent a Moor to speak to Afonso de Albuquerque, saying that he wanted peace and friendship, he offered
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