_ 411 _ monsoon had passed but that he should send a catur there to seek news. Being small it would be able to do this. The chief pilot went in it but as the wind was contrary, he could not move forward and so he returned, taking two marruazes on the way. From the Moors he learnt that the Turks in Kamaran were about three thousand five hundred men. He gave this news to Antonio de Miranda. From Aden Antonio de Miranda went to Zeila to seek plunder, but found its people had gone. He burned the place and then went to Muscat, leaving the fleet there with Antonio da Silva as chief captain. He himself went to spend the monsoon season in Ormuz. Chapter: 69 Whilst Antonio de Miranda was spending the season in Ormuz, he sold the merchandise from the ships he had seized from which he realized sixty thousand cruzados. On the 22nd of August he set off for the Bay of Diu where he would be able to make further seizures. On arrival he found that the sea was still too rough to stay there and so he went into the harbour at Chaul, sounding the bell to tell the fleet to do likewise. This they all did except for Antonio de Silva and Henrique de Macedo who were able to withstand the weather conditions.
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