_ 498 _ In the same year (1561) Lorenzo Perez de Tavora, the Ambassador in Rome, sent a letter to D. Sebastiao, Rome, on the 12th of August 1561, stating that it is difficult to transport wood across the lands between Syria and Iraq into Basra to build ships:(61) Sir, I wrote to Your Highness at great length on many and diverse matters through Diogo Boroa, who left on 20th of last month, and although at the moment there is little else to say, I do not wish to lose the habit of informing you about everything whenever the occasion present itself. On 30th of last month, a Jew by the name of Isac (sic) who, they say, is the son of a lawyer named Silva, arrived at this port of call, it is also reported that he was sent here by the Viceroy, Dom Constantino. He left Goa on 10th October (61) Document no. and reference.
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