_ 195 _ and told me how necessary it was for the service of Your Highness that I should go, and likewise my brother Jorge de Sousa, because if the Turks came as it was reported. He would not be able to furnish it, nor succor it, but in November, and whereas he was thus ordering me in a thing so much to the service of Your Highness I went very gladly and considered myself very fortunate although it was a task of great expense on account of the men I took, and the land being more expensive than any other, and certainly. Senhor, I was not in the position to be able to do so, but in order to serve Your Highness there was no deficiency through my friends despite all the debts I owe them, because otherwise very badly could a man serve your Highness well in this land. And after my arrival to Ormuz in some seven or eight days time, there arrived trustworthy new from the Strait that the Turks would not be coming now that winter, and from the rowers we have news that they had been paid, which was true, but they made for some twenty five or thirty galliots that had come to the relief of Azebibe through the native king having besieged it, and as we knew for certain that they were not coming, Luiz Falquam told me that for the last six years the fortress had been taken from the kingdom of Ormuz and the City of Catifa by the
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