_ 324 _ galleys. If they received news about them, one of them was to bring it to him and the other to continue spying. When these ships arrived at the mouth of the River Euphrates, they captured a terranquin with some Moors, who told them that Barbarossa was under sail ready to depart. One of the ships took this news to Dom Diogo, who immediately told it to return and join the other and to bring him the news as soon as the galleys should leave. Meanwhile, he decided to sail from Cape Mussendum to the island of Henjam, where the galleys would have to call. At the beginning of the same month of August, the two ships brought news to Dom Diogo that fifteen galleys were following in their wake. A short while later, these began to appear under full sail along the coast of Persia driven by a westerly wind. Dom Diogo, whose entire fleet was anchored off the Arabian coast, set sail and began to cross to the Persian side. When he arrived within firing distance of the galley, he bombarded them, but he did not dare to go closer inshore, which was where the galleys were heading as best they could, while firing their artillery. A shot from the bridge of a galley hit the galleon of the captain-major at the water line on the leeward side, which the cannon ball entered. It promptly began to spring a leak.
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