_ 130 _ before the fleet some Moorish boats. The governor wanted his ship to be the first to reach them, in order that they should not be robbed, so he ordered a detour to be made to intercept the other ships, though this was against the wishes of his navigator, who feared that they would go aground in shallows. However, the governor told him he had to go where he was told, and so the ship was lost. Some other ships nearly soon arrived to give help and the people were saved, with some clothing, but because of the merchandise, artillery and munitions for the fortress they were going to build, nothing remained. The governor transferred to Antonio de Saldanha's galleon and returned to his voyage to Jidda, arriving at the entrance to the Strait on the sixteenth of March. There were many ships of the fleet there almost without water. Then a gelva appeared and was taken by Jeronimo de Sousa's galley, and from the thinteen Moors in it the governor learnt that one thousand two hundred men were coming to Jidda to aid the Rumes, who had armed six galleys that they were sending to Zabid, where there was a company of Rumes. This was in order to repair relations with the King of Aden, with whom there had been some discord. When concord was re-established, they were to be at the disposal of the King of Aden on condition that he
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