The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 37 _ (4) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1529) Rais Sharaf was arrested in Ormuz, in 1529, and the events of Ormuz were described as they came in the book: "Da Asia Nova":(4) Chapter: 3 Governor Nuno da Cunha goes to Ormuz: Manuel de Macedo arrives at the fort in Ormuz and seizes Rais Sharif. The rebellion of the Wazir of Bahrain, Nuno da Cunha sends his brother, Simão da Cunha, against the Wazir. As soon as the westerlies started to blow, which usually begin around the fifteenth of March, Simo da Cunha, Don Francisco de Sá and Francisco de Mendoza, the captains of the ships from Portugal, who had stopped over in Mozambique, called a meeting and agreed that, since Nuno da Cunha had not yet arrived, they should sail up the coast

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