The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 98 _ (11) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1529) A letter was sent by the priest of Ormuz, Antonio Lopes, on the 18th of November 1529, which stated:(11) I wrote to Your Worship by Rafaell Nunes wherein I gave an account of the affairs I would obtain information of, and that were in circulation outside because as regards others I could not find out, being secrets, and only after the departure of the Governor from hence shall I speak of what occured here, the Governor sent his brother, Simao de Cunha to Barem before he departed from hence, and as the affair seemed to him unimportant he sent him very badly prepared with the things for way only with some four hundred odd men and the greater number unarmed of those who came this year, albeit that many of them were noble men, and in all the fleet which he took composed

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