_ 295 _ Extract Estevão Gomes the factor of Kalhat, (whom we left earlier making his way to Goa in a terranquin), crossed that great gulf until he came within sight of the land of Bassein. He entered the city and delivered his report. After taking on water and provisions, he left for Goa. The news about the Turks caused such consternation in Bassein that some people immediately started to get ready to go to the relief of Ormuz. The first of all was Antonio de Sá, “The Turk”. He embarked in a light cutter with twenty soldiers and set sail the following day. When they were at sea, he clapped all the sailors in irons, which he had secretly brought for that purpose, because he had decided to pass among the Turkish galleys and he did not want them to dive overboard out of fear. He travelled with such haste that he arrived in Ormuz in twenty days, while the Turks were still waiting on the island of Qishm and the captain received him with great honour. Estevão Gomes arrived in Goa at the end of August, something that was amazing to our men, because he had crossed that perilous gulf in such a small craft and in such stormy weather. When this man arrived in Goa, he went to see the viceroy and gave him the news about the Turkish
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