Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 176: TOME II. PART III. CHAP. IX.

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Dec. A. D. 1569. Furhad Khan, the general of Moortuza Nizam Shah, lays siege to Choul, with an army of eight thousand horse and twenty thousand foot. The main army, under the King of Ahmudnuggur, descends into the Concan.
January. 1570. The Portuguese estimate it at thirty-four thousand cavalry, one hundred thousand infantry, sixteen thousand pioneers, four thousand masons, smiths, and persons of other trades, inhabitants of Turkey, Persia, Khorassan, and Ethiopia, besides three hundred and sixty elephants, an infinite number of oxen, and forty pieces of cannon of great size. A body of four thousand of the enemy's cavalry proceeds along the Concan to the north, and endeavours to cut off the supplies from Bassein and other places belonging to the Portuguese.