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here [at Hormuz] and so, with the powder that he bi
Muscat, he subjected us to a bombardment.
From Lara and Shiraz news came that Shah Tahmasp w
into the lands of the Ottoman Sultan across the frontio
Subsequently I have heard nothing more about this ma
[fresh] news arrive, I will write to Your Lordship [and sen
by ships leaving for that quarter.
I have sent a terraquim t-o the island of Kishm to get
tho intentions of the Turks. I am writing to Your Lordsh
the afternoon, Sunday the 30th of October-a terraquim has
which we have learned that this same day all the fleet c
assembled at the point of the island of Kishm and de
that spot where they have been all the time since their dej
this place [Hormuz]. They have taken their course to B
out this very night just gone. Trust in God that ail this w:
great destruction of these people, by reason of the com
Lordship to this land and by your going towards Basra,
Bey will in no wise escape from the net. The letter Your L
to mo for Murad Ra’is [the ruler of Bahrayn], this I have
to him forthwith and I wrote and bade him gather his
case the Turks come to seize [Bahrayn], so that he could
self as it might be needful for the service of S. A., Our Lc
life and affairs of Your Lordship increase for many year
from Hormuz on the 30th day of October 1552.
rrex nordira
[Ra’is Nur al-Din, the guazil

APPENDIX III*
MD, v, p. 70.
Kostantiniyye, 28 Muharrem 972/5 Sep
It has been sent to the Pasha, His Excellency
sealed and put in a brocade purse.

An imperial letter [written] to the King of Portugal:
To Our Exalted Court which is the refuge of the felic
High Porte which is the seat of good fortune, so that it is
* I am indebted to Dr. C. Orhonlu of the University of late
to Dr. V. L. Manage of the School of Oriental and African Studi
who clarified certain points occurring in this letter and also in
documents.

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