_ 206 _ weather, on the way he forced the surrender of a carrack belonging to Moors which was also bound for Diu. The prisoners were shared out between the carracks, but as soon as she came within sight of Diu, the Moors who were below decks in the carrack “Santa Maria da Serra” conceived such fury and rage that they set her on fire, and as soon as this reached the gunpowder, the decks were hurled into the air and the hull went to the bottom and most of the men, among them the valiant Captain Aires Correla, who had escaped in Bahrein covered in wounds. This often happens, that one who has overcome the fury of fire and the rigours of the sword is overcome by water. The Governor was grieved and angry at this disaster, and at the news he received that Malik Ayyaz had a large force at Madala, five leagues from Diu in the direction of Cambay to prevent him from building the new fortress. He changed his mind and made for Chaul. But before the Governor had left Ormuz he had sent to Bahrein as factor Rul Boto(A), groom of the King’s bedchamber, and as scrivener António Abul, together with 6 or 7 other Portuguese, and they were there when the King of Ormuz rebelled because he could not bear the sight of (A) In the margin: Glorious death of Rui Boto, Portuguese.
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