_ 336 _ Manuel de Vasconcelos continued his voyage until he came within sight of the coast of Arabia and he put ashore at Mount Felix, as he was required to do by his standing orders, to wait there for the carracks that were to come from Achin. He remained there without advantage until the monsoon had exhausted itself. He went to winter in Muscat then to pick up the carracks from Ormuz and escort them to Goa, because they were afraid of the pirate Zafar. He did this without anything worthy of note happening to him. When Fernão Farto came within sight of the coast of Arabia, he made his way to the mouth of the Strait on the Abyssinian side, from where he went to in the direction of Massawa, and he disembarked the priests and Diogo Dias of Prester John in the port of Arkiko. He then went scouring the Strait to obtain information about the galleys, and on receiving positive news that there were no others except those of Zafar there, which were beached, he made the return journey to Goa and gave a report to the viceroy of what had happened. Extract On 10 September 1555, four out of the five carracks that had left this Kingdom that same year, whose captain-major was Leonardo de Sousa, arrived at the bar of Goa. The other
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