_ 310 _ As soon as D Paio left Aden, he made for the coast of Abyssinia, for he could not navigate the Arabian coast because of the easterlies. He sailed along the coast of Abyssinia as rapidly as he could until he reached Mount Feliz; from there he crossed to the Arabian coast and made for [Irique], which is fifty or sixty leagues from Aden in the direction of Qism. There he found two ships on their way from Ormuz under the command of D. Manuel de Lima, in which Aleixos de Carvalho was sailing. Gaining from him the information that D Álvaro was coming to the assistance of Aden, he returned along the coast, and at the port of [Irique] he was informed by some Moors from Kalhat, who were friendly with the Portuguese, that Aden had been captured by the Turks on the very night he had left. He heard the same news at [Verumia], and in the Canacany islands he found news of the same kind through caravans coming from Aden. He also captured an almadia at sea, which gave him the same news, and he heard some of this from our allies, some from the local people, some from conversations he had with Moors he captured. All this news he found to be of the same kind. All the people he asked also gave him the news that seven more royal galleys had arrived in Aden from Suez,
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