_ 59 _ did this, and got under way and as they approached, they were seen by the fleet, which raised anchor and took flight with sails and oars and our men could not catch up with them. They went back to the island and took on water and then returned to the Captain-in-Chief, Jorge da Silveira in the fusta, Dom Antonio in Diogo de Mello’s vessel, and informed the Captain-in-Chief that the Cirne could not stay afloat with eighty Moors at the pumps, which vexed the Captain-in-Chief. /884/ while they were occupied in this at night, with the new moon a gale came up, which could have sunk the ships, and it struck the Cirne so that it might have keeled over if they had not cast off the moorings. They set sail and as they passed Martim Coelho, they told him that they were going to the island to shelter from the wind, and Martim Coelho stayed where he was. With the message from Dom Antonio about the amount of water the Cirne was making, and because it was already agreed that they should go to India, the Captain-in-Chief set sail for the island, to take on water and then to leave. Martim Coelho told him that the Cirne had followed the storm and Dinis Fernandes had said that they were going to the other side of Ormuz is land to shelter from the wind. So, the Captain-in-Chief hastened to take on water until midday, by which time the wind had dropped, and
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