_ 28 _ the cape of Guardafuy and for this reason they besought succour from me. Our friends who were terrified at these Rumes, and they were very sanquine for they declared that no relief could come from those fortresses and that they had enough to see about in order to make themselves ready, and whereas I knew I could go very safely and that was expedient to our credit and for the security of these fortresses to do so in the future, I did, and said, and carried in my company a hundred men. I arrived to Melinde at the end of August where it was considered most certain that the Rumes were coming for as much as they had left many proofs, and a foist of their company in Magadaxo; at the said Melinde I took two foists of Cairo which I found there, and with the four I was taking and some zambugos, and Moors of the said Melinde who were pleased to come with me, it seemed to me to be right for me to go to the said Magadaxo which stands some two hundred leagues from thence, and is the last Moorish place of the said coast, and among them is very renowned, where it was held as very certain the coming of the Rumes and they were very friendly with them when I arrived but no one came forth out to sea and I went at once on land and
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