How Simão de Mello arrived from India with the Succour-Fleet, and Domingos Pirez with news of the English Armada; of the death of Dom Francisco de Sousa, the Captain of Ormuz, and of his successor.

Whilst the Persian was continuing the siege of the Fortress at the cost of so much of his blood, Simão de Mello ¹ arrived with the Succour-Fleet, as the Governor had informed Ormuz, and with him came Luis de Britto, and Dom Gonçalo da Silveyra whom the Captain-Major had sent to India by reason of the dissensions related in Chapter IV; ² after firing a great salute of artillery, the fleet anchored in front of the Fortress, when the Captain-Major sent Balthezar de Chaves and Sebastião Pereyra de Macedo to congratulate him on his arrival.