_ 103 _ in Chief of this fleet; they say he is a man of sixty years of age; he brings with him a grown up son. This is what I was able to learn of this fleet and its Captain in Chief. It is also said that the Turk has ordered men to go to Baçorá, and that this fleet is to go there to embark these men and return with them to combat this Fortress. May Our Lord increase the life and Estate of Your Worship for many years. I kiss the hands of Your Worship. From Ormuz in the thirty first of October one thousand five hundred and fifty-two. I ordered some men of this city who had horses waiting to pass them over to the other side before the Turks came, not to do so, as I have need of them to watch over the island, as I always did every night by their own owners, for which reason they did not pass them over, and the same order I issued to those who had mules for grinding when the Turks arrived to this city, both the horses and the mules were taken inside this fortress, and after they were taken in. As it seemed to me, and actually was so that they consumed much water, I ordered their owners to kill them, and I commenced by killing four of mine which were worth a great deal of money: the men did so also, and those who had mules killed them, to all of which I have passed certificates how I had given these orders, and the reason
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