_ 78 _ brought them there to die without doing any service to God or the King. Thus, they arrived at Kamaran in May and if they had taken a day longer almost everyone would have died, because some ships arrived without any water. On the journey they had endured terrible thirst and now on Iand immense hunger, because as the island was uninhabited, they could not find food, and in the fleet, there was so little that no-one was eating more than boiled rice once per day, and anyone who could catch a fish mixed it with his nice. With this hunger a great number died, mainly the oarsmen; and they fell dead as if it was a plague. Others were so weak that they could not bring the dead, and there never was so great a destruction of people as this. In seeking food for his men, the governor sent to the mainland for provisions, but the Arabs there were enemies and knew how the governor had not fought in Jidda. They not only did not want to supply any provisions but even killed some Portuguese, and the same happened on the island of Dahlak. The governor had ordered a caravelle to Massawa to discover if he could send Duante Galvao there to see the Frester, and among the dead was the captain of the
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