_ 333 _ fleet, because it was essential for Dom Fernando to cross over to Ormuz. When it was learned there that Barnardim de Sousa had not gone on ahead, he dispatched five oared ships to wait for him off Cape Ras-el-Had and to assemble the merchant ships, where Bernardim de Sousa later went to meet them. And because the wind was head-on, he passed by them and went to Muscat where he was very well received by Dom Fernando. A few days later, the carracks of his company also arrived, whereupon they both left for Ormuz, where Dom Antão de Noronha made a great fuss of them and promptly handed over the fortress to Bernardim de Sousa. He then commandeered his galleon, in which he was to go to India, and he ordered it to winter with the others in Muscat. Extract After the Grand Turk had sent Ali Chebuli to take over the galleys that Barbarossa had left in Basra, during the governorship of the viceroy Dom Afonso de Noronha (as has been mentioned), he feared that some disaster might befall him, because he had put his faith in a man more daring than prudent, so he dispatched Zafar Janizaro, an experienced pirate, whom he trusted (about whom we speak at length later) to take command of Ali Chebuli's
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