_ 212 _ with three thousand Moors, being one thousand five hundred archers and a similar number of lancers. On the way they encountered a storm which forced the fleet of the King of Ormuz to take shelter, and the ships of our fleet also, except for the flagship and the caravelle of João Pereira, together these two arrived at Bahrain and anchored there before the city of the same name. It was very large, with big, whitewashed stone houses which had chimneys and verandas for the sun and lattice windows. There King Morrim had his seat, where he awaited Antonio Correa, as he was well informed and had prepared himself. The city was protected on the seaward side by fortifications consisting of a double wall with a distance of ten palms between them filled in with earth and sand. There were gates through the wall to enable access to the beach, and much artillery was deployed along it. It was guarded by twelve thousand Arabs, posted in sentry boxes, and there were three hundred cavalry, mostly wearing protective attire, and four hundred Persian archers, twenty Mameluke musketeers and others who had been so instructed. When Antonio Corriea reached Bahrain he anchored at sea, where he waited six days before his armada arrived. It
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