_ 239 _ over the fortress and handed over the fleet to Dom Diogo de Noronha. Pero de Ataide also surrendered him through an official order which he found there from the Viceroy, in which he instructed him to do so, and Dom Antonio embarked, so did Pedro de Ataide as his soldier. Dom Diogo gave orders for the fleet to be repaired and rigged, and Dom Antonio gave him pay for the soldiers and instructed that they should receive equal shares the whole time they were there. These are two things that always greatly helped to support and preserve the State of India, because the troops are always happy with them, and I would not be surprised if the hardships they now endure originate from the fact that one or more was lacking. Dom Diogo dispatched some oared ships to put in at different ports of call, from Ormuz to Basra, so as to spy on the galleys, and they were to send him frequent news about what they found.
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