_ 409 _ and that the Mullah would tell him how they had died, as well as another who accompanied him. When the place was burned the greatest booty there was a carpet that was used in the mosque, and which had covered almost half the building, four men being unable to move it. Whilst it was lying among the other booty ready to be taken away, Afonso de Albuquerque arrived and bought it from them. Later he sent it to Santiago in Galicia to serve in his house, as he was a knight of this order, in memory of the victory there. When Afonso de Albuquerque saw that the men were weary at the labours they had borne by day and night in these and other enterprises, and in patrolling the whole island, and that the nao “Flor de La Ma of Joao da Nova could not keep afloat because of the water it was taking, he decided to go to spend the monsoon season in Socotra, as it was already time. He gave permission to Joao da Nova to go to India to have his nao repaired for cargo, and o come to this kingdom, as also Jorge Barreto de Castro and Gaspar Dias, who was his standard bearer, because of the had he had lost at the entry to the nao “Meri”. They left Ormuz at the beginning of March, and were as far ahead as Muscat. In so far as Joao de Nova and
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