_ 341 _ Episodes of the year 1555 Dom Luis, the son of the king, sent a letter to the Viceroy of India Dom Pedro de Mascarenhas, Lisbon, on the 23rd of March 1555, stating that peace prevailed in Basra, and that there were no Turkish fleets to attack India:(34) Extract p. 21 The second part of my news is that all that has so far been heard from the route through the Levant is that there is peace in Basra, and that neither in Suez nor anywhere else in those parts is a fleet being built to go against India; this was His Highness's reason for not sending men to India, because it seemed to him that it was better to send finance than many men. Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess are in very (34) Document no. and reference.
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