_ 498 _ When he judged that he could not learn about them in this area he was to cross to Shihr and Qishn(A) and do what he could to find out about them along that shore. In the event of his discovering definite news of the sailing of the Turks to Ormuz he was to return immediately to the Island of Maceiras(B) and stay in that port of call until the moment our naus arrived there. These were to leave India for Ormuz during the March monsoon. When he had word of them he was to escort them into harbour on the coast of India. As soon as he had done this, he was to go with his fleet and station himself in the fortress of Ormuz. Having left with these orders and arrived at the Monte de Feliz(C), he ran into a galleon of Khwaja Sofar that was coming from Tenasserin(D). This was very well armed and supplied with artillery and full of Mamluks and white people. When the fight began Antonio de Souto Maior attacked the galleon with his fusta and boarded it amid the many (A) Shihr and Qishn or Caxem are two places on the southern coast of Arabia. (B) Near the cape of Ras-el-Gate on the coast of Arabia. (C) Gaspar Correia states that Monte de Feliz was "a beautiful hill" near Cape Guardafui (Lendas I, p. 365). It has been identified as Ras-el-Ful or Ras Filuk. (D) On the coast of the Gulf of Bengal.
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