_ 130 _ that the fleet they were sending was weak, so he sent a further five caturs and a hundred men. As these ships were sailing by the Khor Fakkan headland they had opposing winds for 20 days, during which water ran short. They put ashore and found water in some good wells, in a place where the people had run away to the nearby hills. This place had a long beach, where our people began to collect water there were the rowers, the slaves and 20 Portuguese with them. Francisco de Gouvea, a good soldier, said to Don Jorge that he would like to take a hundred men ashore as a guard, until water had been taken on. Because the place had only 10 or 12 little straw huts and its inhabitants, who had fled, were not enough to dare to come down from the hills, Don Jorge did not agree to Francisco de Gouvea doing so. It was not long before more than 300 armed Moors suddenly rushed down from the hill and attacked our men, killing them, and killing many sailors and capturing more than 50-almost all from the flagship. With the Moors pursuing them to within view of the ships, these saw the fighting and opened fire, and the Moors retreated. Summary continuation Don Jorge was so upset that he refused to go to Rishahr
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