_ 500 _ angry that he interposed his fusta between the naus and cut the cable, albeit with great risk to himself and all those who were with him. When he had separated them in his way he attacked the smaller one and set fire to it so that it burned with everything that it was carrying and after that he made for the parau, which he captured and burned. While these events were taking place, the other nau (which was well equipped with sails) had time to enter the Strait and take refuge. This exploit of Antonio de Souto Maior was much talked about (among the Moors) and gave a great reputation to the Portuguese. P. 306 Simão Botelho went to Ormuz and served Your Highness very well there, and so it seems to me that he will do so wherever he may be. If Your Highness does not provide a Controller of Finances there for the accounts, the people who are handling the matter so badly, as I reported to you last year, should be removed and Simão Botelho should be made to live there, while Bastião Luis(A) (A) Bastião Luis, who had already served as registration clerk and fortress commander of Cochin, had been a long time in India. In 1550 Gaspar Correia described him as being an old man. (Lendas IV, pp. 709, 710).
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