_ 99 _ of five ships, besides brigantines, he did not carry more than a barrel and a half of powder, and on arriving to port they saluted it and spent half the powder, and they all disembarked, and they set the camp and they made a station with the artillery they had taken. They began to discharge at the walls, and the Heque who was within sent a message to say that he would not effect a rising with the Fortress because it was not his and he was only a vassal of the King of Ormuz, and to allow him to depart with his wife and children, and he would leave the Fortress, and the reason why he did not depart before the arrival of the fleet. I will tell Your Worship: Barem, Senhor, is a large island and it is surrounded by the Sea, and before the Moor was advised of how they wanted to take all his wealth saying that he did not obey the King of Ormuz, and as he was a relative of the Rey Harafa. The Governor at once sent as soon as he arrived, three brigantines to proceed to Barem, and there guard the passes of the island, and this acted in such a manner that he apprehended Rey Harafo, because albeit that this island is all of it of the King yet it was Rey Harafo’s and he placed a ruler in it as a thing belonging to himself and took all the revenues acccruing from it.
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