_ 392 _ I think that if this Jew deals faithfully with us (and I am confident that this is the quickest and safest route to Ormuz), and India is informed about this news and please God this news arrives in time for our enemies to receive the harm that they mean to inflict, it is enough that they are forewarned in this way about the news, which may be incorrect as happens every day. I received today a letter from Messina, where the nephew of a friend of mine at this court is living, who was assiduous in giving me news of the Levant. He sends the paragraph of a letter which he has seen, which will accompany this, containing the same information that I received from Venice. Now that it has been repeated and agrees in everything with the other, I am sure of it. For this reason, I consider it deserves a special courier to try to arrive before the ships leave, because other and far greater expenditure may perhaps be saved in return for this. It will be a piece of good fortune if the ships can carry the news as well as being warned of the damage they could receive from this fleet if it were to lie in wait for them somewhere, as has often happened, for with the arrival of these ships the viceroy will be able to make appropriate preparations. Because when the ships reach Goa, it will be some time before the news is sent to Ormuz, it would not be a bad
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