_ 29 _ took the said foist that was anchored there and destroyed the city and caused sufficient damage and offence. I proceeded further for six leagues where there is a good watering place and good station for repairing the small ships and is the chief spat where all ships make for that come from Arabia and the Strait, and I remained there for some days until there arrived some vessels from which I learnt for certain that the Rumes were not coming that year, and, whereas it was November, and the East winds had already commenced. I returned to the said Magadaxo and made peace with its King, and came by Brava at which place I came on shore and destroyed it, and set fire to the place; this caused them much damage and slew some of the Moors, all which they very well deserved on accord of the friendship and alliance they had made with the Rumes, and they also delivered up some three or four Portuguese when they went there, and after well punishing them, I made peace with them, and I came along the coast establishing friendship everywhere as far as Melinde, where I found a message from Martim Afonso de Souza the Governor, that he was wintering at Moçambique and he wrote to me that was in great need of food supplies and cables, all which I sent him in as great abundance as I was able.
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