The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 179 _ is tacitly understood. It is true there was no need to express it, since the two actual correspondents, Hwaga ‘Ata, whose policy was inspired by it, and Malik Ayaz who, commissioned to organize the fight against the impious raiders of the sea’, was the first, after 1508, to prepare for a future of lucrative collaboration with them.

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