_ 200 _ The Governor appointed as officials in the customs house, (and these were the first), the following: Manuel Velho as superintendent and judge; as treasurer Rui Varela, a fidalgo, and as scriveners Nuno de Castro, Vicente Dias, Miguel do Vale, Rui Gonçalves and Diogo Vaz, who were accompanied by four Moors who also kept their own books; as factor Khwaja Hamid, who was the senior official of the customs-house. The only reason why the King of Ormuz submitted to this new yoke was that he wished the Governor to give him a fleet to send against the island of Bahrein, the King of which, [Mucrim] by name, had rebelled by not paying his annual pareas. For this enterprise he already had 200 terradas at sea (these are oared ships), together with 3,000 Persian and Arab fighting men under the command of the administrator of the kingdom, Reis Sharafa. It was easy for the Governor to agree to what the King wanted because he saw that this initiative was in our interests as much as his own. He therefore appointed as commandant of the fleet the famous António Correia, who had returned from Malacca after victories in the King of Bintang’s wars. He took with him Captains Rui Vaz Pereira, Gomes de Soto Maior, João Pereira, Álvaro de Moura, Femão Álvares Sermache and Pinto de Alcunha in six further
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