_ 211 _ At that time, the captain in Muscat was João de Lisboa, whom the viceroy Dom Afonso had sent there to build a fort for the security of the Portuguese who were always in that town, as His Highness had so ordered him before he left Portugal. João de Lisboa was building this fort at the summit of the (Bacala) mountains, overlooking the bar. It was not quite finished because he had spent only three months on it. On receiving a message about the galleys, he immediately embarked his own wife and those of several Portuguese who were there, in a terrada and sent them to Ormuz escorted by Bartolomeu Dias de Morais and Apolinario Mendes, old and trustworthy men, and he withdrew to the top of the fort, which was already in a state to defend itself, with sixty Portuguese who were there. He put inside all the provisions, water and firewood that he could collect, and in this way prepared it as best he could. Piri Reis’ son, who had sighted Simão da Costa at the time he returned ashore, hoisted his lateen sail and set off in his pursuit. As the wind was strong, the foist small and the waves so enormous that they almost sank it, the galley caught up with it but because its captain wanted to take our men alive, he decided not to send it to the bottom, but he turned in such a way that the foist lay beneath the oars
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