_ 60 _ recapture that fortress because it belonged to the king of Ormuz, as well as to remove the Turks from the vicinity of our own fortress. Moreover, they would make it clear to them that if they ever set foot in any of those places again, we were capable of expelling them forthwith. When the same captain who had been sent to deal with this matter had settled it, he was to sail to Basra to help the king until he had regained his kingdom, because the fortress and custom house that he was offering us was also of great importance. A chief treasury officer was to be sent immediately for that purpose, so as to put all those things in order. With this agreed, the viceroy appointed Dom Antão de Noronha his nephew as commander of the expedition, with 1,200 men, seven galleons and a dozen oared vessels, and he ordered him to prepare this fleet quickly and to pay the men, as there were now many of them. When Dom Antão de Noronha's fleet was ready, the viceroy launched it on 1st April. The captains who sailed in it were the following: he himself went in the galleon "São Lourenço"; João Fernandes de Vasconcelos, Manuel de Vasconcelos, Martim de Melo Ombrinhos, Pedro Afonso de Avelar and Antonio Lopes de Oliveira with the licenciate
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