_ 340 _ fleet should be sent to him. The governor immediately ordered this to be made ready. It consisted of a galleon, four caravels and ten galliots. He appointed Dom Alvaro de Silveira as captain-major in the galleon, and the captains of the caravels were Dom Pedro de Meneses, Tristão Vaz da Veiga, Aires Gomes da Silva, the son of Bras Teles, and Jeronimo de Mezquita. Those who went as captains in the galliots were Antonio de Sampaio, Pero de Cruz, Vasco Correia, João Galego, Sifal Pinheiro, Gaspar Vaz de Mezquita, Manuel de Magalhães, João Falcão, Jorge Barreto and Francisco Goncalves, who went as the factor of the fleet, which was completely equipped with such speed that he left Goa in March. In a short time it arrived in Ormuz, where he armed six more foists, with which he left for Basra in June of the same year. Brooking no dispute or opposition, he went to anchor near the mouth of the River Euphrates where, while he was waiting for a message from the king of Basra and his allies, he was struck by such a storm that he was forced to unfurl the sails, slacken the cables and run at the will of the wind. This scattered the entire fleet in different directions,
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