_ 331 _ in the port of Mecca, under captain Zafar, with whom Luis Figueira had fought. They brought this news to the captain-major, but as it was already the beginning of April, in which it was necessary to withdraw to Ormuz, he set sail for there and he travelled along the coast of Arabia until he arrived at the fortress of Dofar, where he anchored with the whole fleet, because he had an official order from his father that he should expel the Fartakans from there, who had returned once more. The following day, everyone was transferred to the oared ships and to the sloops of the galleons and caravels, and our men set out for the land and began to disembark with difficulty because the waves were breaking violently there. Almost three hundred Fartakans emerged from the fortress on Arab horses and camels which they had brought trained for that encounter, and they began to engage the first of our men who came ashore. Like men who did not fear death or who were unaware of it, they charged them with such momentum that in the first engagement they cut down ten or a dozen of our men, between dead and wounded, among them were João Velho the captain of a ship, Lopo Goncalves Maracote and Tome Figueira, very honourable knights.
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