_ 62 _ On the next day he sent our governor so many boats laden with refreshments that they covered the sea. He also sent four pilots who would lead him through the entrance to the Red Sea, and without further discussion about what to do the governor departed for the Strait. On the following Sunday, which was Passion Sunday, Diogo Pereira, who had been sent ahead in a junk(A), with orders to take the pilots; seized an Arab ship. He then waited with it for the governor to arrive. The governor came to the entrance to the strait at nightfall and set off again soon after. This was a very bad decision, on account of the shallows and islands that were there on the way in. When a fleet as large as this one enters it should do so in sunlight and sail with the sun. Then a storm arose so fiercely that the whole fleet was at risk of being lost. The galley of Dom Alvaro de Castro disappeared as if the Red Sea had swallowed it. Among the nobles who were lost was Jorge Galvao, the son of Duarte Galvao, As the fleet passed through the tempest dawn broke over some islands, on which it would have broken into pieces if the sun had not revealed them. (A) An Arab-type boat with oars and sail.
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