_ 453 _ In the same year (1560) The first priest Nunes Barreto sent a letter to the priest Diogo Leones, the Governor General of the Society of Jesus in Rome, Goa, on the 9th of December 1560, regarding the King of Zeila appointed by the Mamluks:(52) Paras. 2-3 2. This year a knight(A) offered himself to the Viceroy to be sent to the strait of Mecca to find out about the galleys that the Mame luks are said to have built and to be building in order to attack the State of India. They have come here three times: the first and second times they fled in disorder and the third many of them were captured and others burnt. The Grand Turk must regret this, and because of it (A) Perhaps this was the fidalgo Afonso who later went in search of emissaries in Massawa and was later killed. (ef.Beccaria X 1104-5. 108-10). (52) Document no. and reference.
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