_ 210 _ He was also the lord of a fortress called Qatif on the mainland of Arabia, ten leagues from Bahrain. He was married to a daughter of the lord of Mecca, whom the Moors consider a holy man, and he was a very strong and brave gentleman. After the rising against the King of Ormuz he stopped paying him the tribute he had been paying hitherto. Then he gathered a great armada of terradaes, more than a hundred and forty of them, and forced all the ships in that part of Persia which were going to Ormuz to remain in the harbour at Bahrain. Thus, the King of Ormuz was losing trade at his customs house apart. from the tribute that Morrim was no longer paying him. However, as the governor had placed his own officials in the customs house to collect the revenues there, he asked him, as a vassal of the King of Portugal, to bring Morrim to heel telling him what had been happening in past years. This the governor agreed to, and accordingly he spoke to his nephew Antonio Correa. He had given his nephew the chief captaincy of a fleet which was to go to the headland of Diu to await ships to seize until he went there himself. Now another fleet had to be sent to Bahrain, and he asked him to say which task he preferred. This the governor agreed to, and accordingly he spoke to his nephew Antonio Correa, he had given his nephew the
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