_ 21 _ When all the sick and guns had been loaded Simao da Cunha went on board almost dead from exhaustion and from the great misfortune. What grieved him most was that he could have taken the fortress if they had allowed him, and he said as much to the captain of the ship he embarked on. He said, "Captain, when you have to do something for your honour do not take the advice of anyone except yourself." Then he ordered the sails to be raised and departed together with the other ships, In the first three days of their voyage many of the sick began to die and his sadness steadily grew until he himself became ill. He was so disgusted with life and everything that he stayed in the cabin and would not see or speak to anyone. He gave out great sighs and moans during nine days and finally dying of sadness. A good seventy died in this ship apart from those in the other ships. The ship was so undermanned that it would have been lost it Our Lord had not sent to its aid Fernando Alvarez Sarnache in a terrada. He came with some men and helped it to get to Ormuz where Simao da Cunha was buried as was Francisco Gomez, the son of the Bishop of Funchal. All the ships of the armada arrived without their captains, some in front and others following
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