_ 92 _ and left the fortresses well provided and garrisoned with two thousand men. The Hatamaz sent here an Ambassador of his with letters to the Captain and others for the Viceroy, in which he made known to them, that he was getting ready to go against the lands of the Turk and upon Baghdad, and beseeching help in ships and artillery to proceed to Baçora and he would come on by land to assist; the Captain at once sent the letters to the Viceroy, and replied that he would provide in this affair as should be to the service of Your Highness of the Hatamaz we have already had news here that he had entered into the lands of the Turk. This would be the time and opportunity for the Viceroy to be assisted by him, because now, owing to the need the Hatamaz has of his favour, he would afford him all the help that should be necessary by land, in order to take Baçorá, and if the galleys should go there, the undertaking would be more favourable. Because it strikes me that it would be a greater service to Your Highness, to have ten galleys burnt down of the Turks, than be at Constantinople be taken and I truly hold that were the Viceroy to proceed to Baçoré this coming year of five hundred and fifty three in the month of May,
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