_ 190 _ They must have been astern of us for a hundred and fifty leagues. With this weather we set about tacking as best we could, to reach the shore around from the coast of Cape Guardafui. We were sailing with easterly winds in the middle of the Straits, searching for Aden, which lay to the west, at its correct latitude and the wind that was taking us was southeast. Before the south wind blew up, we gave the naus so much sail that we approached the coast, came within sight of Abd-el-Kuri and reached Arabia Felix. With the wind increasing, the seas were against us in the same direction as the winds. We endured both the sea and the wind which were extremely strong and we lost the caters that we carried on the stern poop; and that is how we sailed following the shore. As I have said, this storm forced the naus from Calicut to put into harbour and sent two of them to the bottom. The others, with their masts broken, jettisoned their spices. One of them reached Mahim, another Danda. Two arrived at Dabul, one at Cangicar and another at Batecala. Another sped to Calicut and was lost in Panane, another entered Mangalore. Other naus that came from Sumatra, Martaban and Bengal, sailed off to the islands and up till now, I do not know what happened to them.
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