Dom Manoel de Sousa reaches Ormuz with a galliot; and takes away his Mother, the Prince of Ormuz, and other Persons.

Whilst our men were taking in their quarters the scant repose which time allowed them, shortly after midnight those who were on watch saw a vessel approach from the direction of Comorão; this boat anchored close inshore, and a youth disembarked from it who came knocking on the gate of the Fortress, and said that he was Dom Manoel de Sousa son of the late Captain Dom Francisco de Sousa, and that he brought letters from the Governor of India. ¹