_ 232 _ missing were Dom Jorge de Meneses Baroche, who had come to this kingdom two years previously; Antonio Dias de Figueiredo, (both of whom had gone to winter in Mozambique); Antonio Monis Barreto, who had been sent to the fortress of Bassein and who while searching for the coast of India had run aground in the river Seitapor, thirty leagues from Goa, where all his men and the greater part of their possessions were saved ashore. With the arrival of these carracks, the Viceroy speeded up his departure, and expedited many things because it was risky for them to delay very long out at sea. When these and many other things had been concluded, the Viceroy embarked without further delay at the end of October in a fleet of more than eighty ships, among which there were more than thirty large ones. This fleet sailed with favourable winds and put in at Diu in a few days, where the Viceroy came across a ship with letters from Dom Alvaro the Captain of Ormuz, in which he informed him that the galleys had withdrawn to Basra, and he gave him a detailed account of everything that had happened in Ormuz and Muscat, in which the sorrow he felt about one detracted very much from the pleasure he had received from the other.
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