_ 416 _ also firing his guns as he went and he hit Antonio de Silva with a cannonball, killing him. Those with him were so dismayed at this that they gave up the pursuit of the enemy and returned to where Henrique de Macedo remained. Ali Shah on seeing them return thought that it was some trick to catch him, so he did not follow and fled away. It he had followed neither they nor those of the Samorin would have escaped. On reaching Henrique de Macedo they all went to Chaul and from there to Goa where the captain in chief who arrived there at the end of September and he gave an account of what had happened to the governor. Chapter: 71 At this time Cristovao de Mendonca, Captain of Ormuz wanted to send the King of Portugal assurances that the Turks were not coming from India and advice concerning many matters which had arisen in his service in Ormuz as well as India. For this purpose, he chose one Antonio Tenrreiro who was from Coimbra but was then in Ormuz. He had gone with Baltesar Pessoa to Sheikh Ishmael and on his way from Jerusalem had been captured by Turks believing him to be a spy. After being taken to Cairo he had been freed and wanted to return from there to Portugal, he
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