_ 385 _ thing to the smallest, and have in everything such order and readiness that the adversary will not find the ease that he has been led to expect in this enterprise when he sets about it. From these letters of Tomás de Cornoça and many other sources, it is understood that the Turk is making a large fleet in great haste to send to these parts. It is also thought that because he has so much to do in the war between his sons, they said, fleet will not be as strong as he had planned in the first year when he had peace, and what he will use this for is to defend Algiers, about which they are afraid this summer, and to scour these coasts and do what damage they can when confronted. It is said of the King of Spain's fleet that it was recently bound for Tripoli but has not yet arrived there, and it is not known what it will do, because it is still in Malta. It is said that it is waiting on the weather and that many people have fallen sick or died and that this has made it impossible to act in the summer. The folly of attempting the conquest of Tripoli in the depths of winter is so obvious that it raises the suspicion that there is some other secret purpose which time will reveal. If the Turkish fleet does come, as is held to be certain,
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