_ 292 _ the city of Ormuz were there. He disembarked without meeting any resistance and plundered it. He filled the galleys with riches, because there were more than thirty merchants worth thirty to fifty thousand cruzados. Among them was a Spanish Jew named Soloman who owned eighty thousand cruzados in gold, pearls, precious stones and other possessions, all of which they took from him and they made him and his wife and family prisoners. Of the people who were on the island, who were close on twenty thousand, the Turks took captive those they felt like and committed great acts of cruelty and inhumanity. The island of Qishm is two leagues’ along the Arabian coast from Ormuz. 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 Turks spent many days there, travelling its whole length, and when they were tired and fed up with it they embarked and went to Basra. Meanwhile, the wife of João de Lisboa and the two old men made their way to the fortress. The captain had sent some light terranquins to spy on them. On receiving news that they had already retired to
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