_ 227 _ with great cruelty, and when they were completely tired of plunder they embarked and made for Basra. The island of Qishm is two leagues along the Arabian coast from Ormuz (although in another report I found that it was five). It is about thirty leagues long and two wide, in some places three. It begins in a place called Lafta and finishes in another called Cirimião, which is the innermost point. The captain, who was still not sure about the enemy, sent some light terranquins to spy on them. On receiving news from them that they had already withdrawn to Basra, the king and the guazil returned to the city, which they found destroyed and almost completely wasted. After them, the people who were on the other shore also began to withdraw to it, so that in a short time it was populated again and rebuilt once more.
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