_ 20 _ of Marzy and fortify it in such a manner that they should lose the hope of again navigating freely there. Because it is said there is much fitness for one and a stronghold it is calculated easily sustained, and the dues there would yield a good revenue when trade should be established, and merchandize circulate with which all expenses of the said fortress would be defrayed; I am again writing to Dom Alvaro de Noronha respecting the prohibition of the trade of Baçorá and likewise about Reixel to write to me and tell me if any remedy can be had about this, and that it is better to have no news of Baçorá than to know them via Reixell. When I arrived here I found news that the Turks were projecting entering into Muscat, owing to its being the principal port of the Coast of Arabia to which all or the greater number of the ships and vessels going to Ormuz resort and those coming from it to India, necessarily make for it to take water, and they take shelter there and often times the fleet winters there, more especially on the occasion of being at war with Cambaya and the fleets went to the Strait, and whereas it would be so prejudicial a thing to Ormuz should the Turks enter her owing to the character of the land and the bay such that they could render themselves strong so that with small cost they
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