_ 159 _ to the family whom the Moors consider as relations of Mahomed. He brought with him a woman of the same family who left him, converted to Christianity of her own volition, married a Portuguese widower, named Jorge Veira, and went to live in India. An envoy was sent to the Shah of Persia to whom the Moor complained bitterly that the Portuguese in Ormuz had kidnapped his wife (or woman), forced her to become a Christian and subjected her to other serious indignities, which infuriated the Shah. The leading personages of the realm advised the envoy to write immediately to the Captain of Ormuz asking for the woman to be returned and saying that if this was not done the envoy would be detained by the Shah. Henrique de Macedo wrote all this to D. Alvaro de Noronha, Captain of Ormuz and sent the letter by a Portuguese, Antonio Mendes de Oliveira. The Shah also wrote to the Captain of Ormuz, sending the letter by one of his servants, and telling him to have the woman returned immediately, whether she was a Christian or a Moor, and that If she was no longer here to have her sought out. He also said that he was not yet declaring war because he was holding the ambassador and he was going to wait
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