_ 11 _ In the same year (1552) A letter was sent from D. Afonso to the king on the 27th of January 1552, mentioning the battle of Qatif and the Turks in the Shatt al-Arab:(2) Senhor, Good news have taken precedence, and should be announced first and then give an account of how these events came about, and this news of the taking of Catifa I hold as such, and so great that I have no doubt in qualifying them as such. Dom Amtão de Noronha whom I sent out with the fleet as Captain in Chief of her and which was to proceed to Catifa, took the place after a combat of eight days defending her from the Turks which were in her and had fortified her as much as they judged would suffice for defending her against the whole power of India, and after (2) Document no. and reference.
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