_ 511 _ In the same year (1561) A report was issued to the King of Basra, Serra de Sintra, on the 28th of August 1561, describing the region from Basra to Ormuz:(62) Sir, Although to give an opinion on a matter of such importance, it is necessary to have a more detailed knowledge and to be delivered by persons of consequence, I will speak according to the information I received in India. Basra is a town situated in Arabia Felix at 30onorth, a quarter of a league inland from the bank of river Euphrates. It is approached by an inlet of the sea said to have been made artificially in antiquity. Ormuz is two hundred leagues from Basra, and forty from Babylon, which is now called Baghdad, and from (62) Document no. and reference.
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