_ 109 _ against the Turk in case he should come there, in order that he should offer the deffence that was proper to the service of His Highness. May Our Lord increase the life and estate of Your Worship for many years. From Ormuz on the thirtieth day of October one thousand five hundred and fifty-two. Rex Nordim Transcript of the Letter of Bastiam Lopes Lobato, through Fernam Farto. Senhor, On the nineteenth day of September there arrived within sight of this fortress, Peribeque, Captain of the Turk, with twenty five galleys, and three high decked ships; he disembarked at the point of Cauru a third of a league from this fortress where the artillery could not reach; then a great portion of the men came on to the houses in the neighbourhood of this fortress, and from thence they fired with many musket shots, some of which passed over and others fell within, wounding some of the men and killing three. Had the siege continued very much longer no little damage would all of us have received from these enemies and the evil neighbourhood of the houses; on the third day after their arrival they placed two pieces on the residence of the King, from where they fired on to the dwelling of the
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