_ 455 _ The Moor, the uncle of the then king of Aden who was travelling with Dom Alvaro, confused by the conflicting news that Dom Paio and Dom João had given him about the Turkish fleet, asked Dom Alvaro to have him put ashore at the spot where the foists had been lost, and he would bring him word about what had happened to the Portuguese, if he found them. He affirmed this with so many oaths in his own fashion, that Dom Alvaro decided to send him at the risk of his returning or not, and Dom João de Ataide offered to take him in a large foist, to which he transferred. Pero de Ataide, nicknamed “Inferno”, escorted him in a light pinnace. Dom Alvaro gave him instructions that if the Moor did not return within twenty days, he should go and join him in Qishm, where he would find him, because it was agreed in council that while Dom João was escorting the Moor, Dom Alvaro was to go to Qishm and destroy the castle that the Turks had built there. He left for Qishm immediately after Dom João, with thirty-two foists, in which he took the son of the king of that country, whom he had brought with him from Bassein. After putting the Moor ashore, who assured him with fresh oaths that if the Portuguese were alive, he would bring them within twelve days, and if they were
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