_ 330 _ In the same year (1548) Dom João de Castro sent a letter to his son, Goa, on the 28th of April 1548:(80) I hope you have a good joumey(A). You have fought a battle greatly to my satisfaction(B) and you should be ever (A) D. Álvaro was on his way back from the voyage to Aden. It is known that he had achieved nothing in the city at the entrance to the Strait. When he arrived in the Canacany Islands, he met D. Paio de Noronha, who had abandoned Aden to the Turks, being of the opinion that he could not resist them with the sixty Portuguese who were with him. D. Álvaro then made for the coast of Arabia, where, after a hard battle, he captured Qishm from the King of El-Shihr and handed it back to the native King. He then returned straight to Goa in accordance with his father’s instructions. (B) Gaspar Correia did not find this deed so praiseworthy. He recounts that D. Álvaro allowed himself to be swayed by the advice of the (80) Document no. and reference.
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