_ 11 _ The King of Ormuz received them warmly, but their arrival caused Rais Sharif to be very afraid as he thought he might be punished for his tyranny. Nuno da Cunha being new to the scene there was fear of what he might do. After Nuno da Cunha had been in Ormuz a few days Manuel de Macedo reached the area from Portugal as captain of a galleon. He carried an order from the King of Portugal that Rais Sharif was to be seized on account of the many misdeeds he had committed and sent in that same galleon back to Portugal under guard. The king had given the task to Manuel de Macedo as he had confidence in him believing he would do it better than any other and would not be perverted by bribes. On arriving at the watering place of Terve, which is sixty leagues from Ormuz, he learnt that Nuno da Cunha was in Ormuz, and as he feared that if Nuno da Cunha knew of his mission, he would deprive him of the honour he would gain in apprehending Rais Sharif a thing much demanded, he decided to conceal his going to Ormuz. He went in a terrada with some trusted men he told the officer he had left as captain of the galleon to go to Ormuz after a few days, which he thought would be time he would need to carry out his task. He duly arrived at Ormuz in the terrada one morning and landed very secretly. He then went to the residence of
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