Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 165: TOME II. PART II. CHAP. I.
History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 165
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Don John de Castro governor-general of India. Second siege of Diu. Several French gunners in the service of the King of Guzerat. Sixty pieces of cannon are mounted on a work raised by the besiegers parallel to the fort. Khwaja Zuffur, the Guzerat general, an Italian renegado of Otranto, is killed during the siege, which is continued by his son Roomy Khan, and Joojhar Khan, an Abyssinian.