The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 410 _ permission to leave when Afonso d’ Albuquerque gave his farewell, seeing that he was further away from his route to India and suited his, he did not wait any longer for this farewell, but at night went on his way and arrived safely, thanks to God the merciful. Afonso de Albuquerque also arrived in Socotra. Because during the time that he spent on these things and in that island other things happened, in Cairo and in India, whilst two armadas of the years 1507 and 1508 set out from this kingdom for those parts, we shall give a report of all in the following chapter, as this is its place.

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTg0NzAy