_ 308 _ In the same year (1548) A report was issued by Dom Alvaro de Castro and his companions from the gentlemen, on the 19th of March 1548, on the conditions in Aden:(74) On 19 March 1548, D Álvaro de Castro, supreme commander of the Sea of India, arrived in the Canacany Islands, sailing with a fleet of caturs and foists to the assistance of Aden, which had been taken from the Turks by Ali Suleiman. As he had asked to be set free and had requested help from Governor João de Castro in the Canacany Islands, he met D Paio de Noronha with two foists. D Paio de Noronha had been inside the city of Aden for three months together with twenty-seven Portuguese men, with whom he had left Ormuz, summoned by Ali Suleiman at the orders of D. Manuel de Lima, Captain of (74) Document no. and reference.
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