The affairs of Ormuz being now in the state and quiet which I have described, and the fortress being already advanced to a considerable height, there arrived a Moor from Calayate with news for the great Afonso Dalboquerque, informing him that when he left that port, news had just come in from Adem that the Rumes were making themselves ready in Suez with a large fleet, to come up against Ormuz; and although it seemed to him that this news had been circulated by the brothers of Reys Hamed, out of a desire to set the country in an uproar, Afonso Dalboquerque turned it to a good advantage in making it serve the purpose which he had for days past been desirous of effecting, which was to get the whole of the king's artillery into his hands by some means which should not cause any scandal.