_ 219 _ Rather pleased with the prize of that fortress, the Pasha Piri Reis left Muscat and appeared a few days later in Ormuz with his entire fleet. It was a day of thick fog, and he went in search of the other shore of [Chaurum = Jarun?], where he immediately disembarked all his men. Even though he was indisposed with the four-day fever, the captain of the fortress Dom Alvaro de Noronha, sallied forth with six hundred men. When he reached the cross outside the city, he gave orders to spy on the enemy. Having learnt that they were all ashore, he retired to the fortress on the advice of all his men, until he had ascertained what the enemy had decided. He kept careful watch on them throughout that day and night. He fitted out the 40 carracks that they were in the port in such a way that they could not be captured, but principally the Royal carrack that was there, which was very large, in which its captain Aires Monis ordered to put the boatswain, who was very experienced in his job and was known by the nickname of “Harelip” by all the sailors and cabin-boys, and as the master-gunner by the bombardiers, because he always had the artillery at the ready. After taking this precaution the captain immediately attended to the defence of the fortress and he put Dom
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