_ 211 _ and the Christians carried a flag with the cross of Christ on it, the Moors carrying one with an image of Mohammed. The Christians again won and as they had done each other a lot of harm they were forbidden to fight again. At this moment, on the 16th of May Fernao de Morais arrived at Diu. He had left Portugal that year as captain of a trading nao as I said and through him the king had written that it was certain that the Turks were sailing to India. This news Antonio da Silveira had through one Tristao Gomez a native of Sesambra. Who being a captive of Barbarossa had fled away and gone to Basra and later to India. From him Antonio de Silveira learnt with certainty of the movement of the Turks. As Fernao de Morais could not sail his nao along the coast of India, being the monsoori season he went in a catur towards Goa. From Chaul he could no longer sail by catur so he went by land and took the letters to the governors who began to make himself ready to go to Diu the following September. Chapter: 184 Khwaja Mafar greatly wanted to take the fortress at Diu and he knew how inadequately it was provided with men and water. He went to Champaner, where there was the mother of the Sultan Bahdur and her grandson, Sultan Mahmul the boy King of Cambay and the three captains who were governing his kingdom. He gave them an account
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