_ 459 _ Episodes of the year 1561 Lorenzo Perez de Tavora, the Ambassador in Rome, sent a letter to D. Sebastiao, Rome, on the 22nd of January 1561, stating that the Turkish fleet was partly in Alexandria and partly in Suez:(54) My Lord, Yesterday, I received two letters from Matias Bicudo of Cairo, which will be sent with this one. Since he refers in the main letter to a third one, he has written, which has not yet reached me, it seemed necessary to send these two to Your Highness. They will serve to inform you that the Suez fleet does not consist of such a large number of galleys as was earlier believed, and also to make clear that the Turk having divided the command of the Pasha of Alexandria into two, that is to say one part in Alexandria and the other in Suez, it (54) Document no. and reference.
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