How the fleet of rowing-vessels that was in the River of Lafetd arrived, and what passed in Ormuz.

The drummer having left with the letter, proceeded to his quarters. [Now at this time] the Captain-Major Gaspar de Affonseca was in the River of Lafetá [Laft] with 30 galliots and 20 terranquins; when he learnt of the state in which the fortress of Queixome was, by news that had reached him from Ormuz, he came coasting out with flags and banners; he issued orders that 3 galliots and 2 terranquins should attack each ship, with strict orders either to burn the ships or the galliots with them, for it was better that they should all perish with the English than that the fortress should be lost.