_ 43 _ and they took on as much water as there was room for, which they found in seventeen ships that were in the port for cargo, from which they also took yards and wood for firing. They worked at this until noon, and then the Captain-in-Chief said they could take what they liked of whatever they found, which was good booty, and this they did until sunset, when the Captain-in-Chief ordered that the town and the ships should be set on fire, and everything was destroyed. When the Captain-in-Chief returned to his ship, he spoke to the Moor who had come with the goats and asked him for news of Ormuz, because he was a merchant who travelled around, and he told him that a ship had come to Ormuz from Cambay which had brought the news that Mir Asim, the Turkish Captain, with a fleet of ships and galleys, in company with Malik Ayyaz, had been to Chaul, where he had fought the Portuguese and taken the flagship of the Captain-in-Chief, whom they had killed, and they had captured some Portuguese, who had converted to Islam. Ormuz was half destroyed because after the war it had always been short of provisions. Food had not arrived from India because when they heard that there was fighting there the ships that brought it turned back. They were also very short of water because none of the terradas that
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