_ 327 _ In the same year (1548) A report was issued by Alvaro de Castro to the Viceroy of India, about the attempt to seize the fortress of Qishn, on the 5th of April 1548:(79) On the fourth day of the month of April 1548, Álvaro de Castro, Commander-in-Chief of the Sea of India, together with the fleet with which he had left India to go to the aid of Aden, arrived at the port of the city of Kishm, already on his way to India, as he had heard news in the Canacani Islands that Aden had been captured by the Turks, and that there were Turkish galleys and ships in the port of the city of Aden. He therefore summoned all the captains and fidalgos sailing with him in the fleet and asked them all if it seemed advisable to them to disembark in the city of (79) Document no. and reference.
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