_ 134 _ not been able to capture anyone alive. From this couple he learnt about. Sheikh Ishmael’s captains and the goods he had found near the mosque. He took them with him after the town had been burnt to a cinder, and also after setting fire to some terradas which were anchored in the harbour. He returned to the ships feeling very pleased, and at night sent the old man and the old woman to Ormuz in a boat, so that they could tell the king and Cojeatar about what he had done in Naband which upset them greatly. Chapter: 89 But the commander-in-chief also had reason to be upset, because on the same day that he was victorious in Naband, Diogo de Melo, who was at the pass, which he had been instructed to guard, decided to lead an assault on the place where Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco had captured the two terradas loaded with refreshments for this purpose, he spoke to some Arab captives he was carrying on board. These men knew that many terradas were always going to the place about which Diogo de Melo was talking, and they advised him to go, in the hope that he might be killed, and they might win their freedom. They told him he would capture a rich booty and asked him to take them along, for they would deceive the other Arabs (i.e., the ones Diogo
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