_ 226 _ captains of the King of Portugal received the vassals of the Turk. With that he ordered all of them to embark without paying any heed to the lamentations and the pitiful tears that bathed the face of the despondent wife or to the tired and disconsolate old men. When this message had been delivered to the Pasha, as it was night, he immediately ordered the woman and the two old men to be cast onto the island by the same galley master and they took shelter in the fortress. He sailed on to the island of Qishm, taking with him a carrack of a Portuguese, which had been abandoned on the other shore, because he had been informed that all the riches of the city of Ormuz had been transferred to that island. There he disembarked without meeting any resistance. He stayed there many days, travelling its length and breadth and plundering it, from which he took enormous booty from the properties of more than thirty very wealthy merchants, who had withdrawn there. Among them was a Spanish Jew called Soloman much richer than all the rest, from whom the Turks seized all that he had, and he was made prisoner with his whole family and of the close on twenty thousand people who were on the island they took captive those that they wanted, treating all of them
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