_ 19 _ I set up store houses in some ruins. All the other quarters are of straw. Afonso de Albuquerque departed from here on 8th November and old to send him Aires da Silva, with all his man and naus, on 1st January. He left me just five hundred men and six ships for the fortress. I dispatched Aires da Silva with his man and naus on 8th January. I took Antonio Ferreira, because Fernão Gomes de Lemos, who had gone to Sheikh Ismael, was approaching. Behind him came a Captain of Sheikh Ismael with six of seven thousand men, wo took possession of Dharhan from the sea opposite Bahrain. He sent to the King, requesting a boat. The latter replied that he should come to me. So, the Ambassador came, telling me, on behalf of that selfsame Captain, that Sheikh Ismael had sent a request for boats from the Captain General. When he did not find the Captain General, he asked for them from the King of Ormuz so as to take Bahrain and El Katiff. He had asked the King, who answered him that he could do nothing without me, but that I would give them to him since we were such great friends of Sheikh Ismael. I replied to him by saying that I could not give him such a thing, but that he should send a request to Your
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