_ 91 _ very well serve Your Highness, and to whom it would be well to show some favour. On the day they left here there came on to us two Christians, one a Russian by nation and the other Italian, by which we came to know how few they are in number, and how the Turk had bade Pirebeque not to proceed to besiege this fortress without first coming to Baçorá, and there take on men, and then proceed to besiege us, but it appears that owing to the weakness he met with in Mascate, he judged that all would be similarly weak; he is still in the Island of Queixome; we know not up to the present what he is going to do with himself, or whether any men are coming to him from Baçorá. On last March of this very year, there came upon the Gizares the Baxa of Baghdad with ten or twelve thousand men and joined the Baxa of Baçorá, and together they entered along the lands of the Gizares who, albeit that they defended themselves and had many fights with the Rumes they captured from them three fortresses, among them one, which is called Medina, which is the principal one the Gizares hold, and the Rumes when they had taken the fortress after extreme distress, and after remaining five months in the land on account of the many deaths among them and many more invalids, he returned to Baghdad,
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