ABSTRACT
A Fleet of several men of war, commanded by Dom Lopo de Almeida, was preparing to leave Goa and sail towards Surat against the Arabs of Mascati [Muscat], who had captured a Portuguese vessel from Macao in the very port of Surat. A large fleet of merchantmen were sailing together with the fleet and we left with them in the latter half of November (November seventeenth, Fl. MS. f° 1), touching at Ciaul [Chaul] and at Bassaim [Bassein], from whence we went overland to our College at Daman where we arrived on the twenty-first of December.
