_ 254 _ to disembark. This was to be on the following day. On reviewing the troops that he had brought, he found 1,100 Portuguese plus 3,000 Persians and Ormuzians, under the standard of Rais Sharaf the guazil of Ormuz and Mir [Maxet] the guazil of Moghistan. Amongst these there were many emirs and captains from the kingdom of Ormuz. Having entrusted the vanguard to Manuel de Vasconcelos, he transferred all the men of the fleet to the small ships and the small boats of the galleons. When all was ready, the ships of Manuel de Vasconcelos reached land at high tide where they cast anchor. Our men immediately jumped ashore where they encountered some Turks on horseback who had sallied forth to opposed their disembarking. They engaged these in a fierce skirmish and, with a swift charge, drove them backwards, forcing them into the fortress. The captain-major also disembarked all his men with standards unfurled, the Portuguese in one squadron, the Persians in another, and when they reached the fortress, they set up camp next to each other. He immediately fortified the camp with trenches, earthworks and parapets, on which they spent the whole day and night, following the order and plan of the French captain (about whom we gave an account at the defeat of D. Jorge de Castro in
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