_ 383 _ (42) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1560) His Excellency the Ambassador Lorenco Peres de Tavora in Rome sent a letter to D. Sebastiao, Rome, on the 14th of February 1560, mentioning that the Turks were preparing a huge fleet:(42) Sir, The main reason for my sending you this despatch is so that if it arrives before the departure of the ships sailing to India this year, Your Highness will have confirmation of the galleys, or rather timber for twelve of them, being sent from Constantinople to Alexandria and thence to Cairo and Suez in order to enlarge the fleet that they have in the strait for India. The last information I have from Venice is that there are twenty, and to make clearer this news and what is being said about the cause of this order from the Turk, as is
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