_ 349 _ In the same year (1551) News came from India, from Diogo Botelho Perriera, Terceira (Azores) Goa, on the 15th of July 1551, as well as the occupation of Aden, Basra, Qatif and Bahrain by the Turks:(39) Extract p. 24-5 I left Portugal on 23rd Match [1549]; I passed the Cape of Good Hope, on 10th July; I sighted Mozambique on 18th August and left there on the 22nd and because the winds were slight and the ship difficult to steer, I reached India on 20th October, very short of water, wine and provisions, and with forty or fifty men sick and seven or eight dead. Being unable to go to Goa, where I knew Jorge Cabral was Governor, and that there was something to load, which was so, I then made for Cochin. (39) Document no. and reference.
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