The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 182 _ f26 On 8 September of the said year one chamber of an iron berço burst as the ship set out to sea chamber. Item: On 27 September 1520, at Ormuz, we began to use the two hundred and seventy-five jars of water with the seamen of the ship [nylemgaçall]. It was finished on October 28 of the same year 275 jars. Item: On the same day, when we tried to raise the ship’s mast in harbour, the mast fell as it was being stepped and broke in the middle. It was found to be rotten, and broke in two other places. Item: The Captain and factor paid for sixty palm-leaf mats which were provided by the storekeeper to go in the hold in which the horses are shipped. 60 mats. Item: In the harbour of Ormuz on 26 September he paid for eighty mogarazas for the horses’ hold and for the deck and other small mats 80 mogarazas. On 19 November we began to use the nine mãos of oil which the storekeeper gave us for the lamps on the ship’s voyage to Goa. It lasted as far as Goa, with some other oil which was taken on at Khor Fakkam and Muscat. 9 mãos. Item: On 25 December of the same year, the ship’s mast and yard broke in bad weather. They were repaired with spars, but because we had no coir rope in the ship, the Captain and factor used a thick coir cable

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