_ 21 _ According as the Turks go on increasing and the King and the people of Prester are opposed to receiving the Roman Patriarch, it seems that if two or three thousand men do go to conquer the land of Prester and destroy the Mamluks, they will never properly receive the faith of the Roman Church nor submit to the obedience of their patriarch. I do not know when it will be possible, with this state of India being do diffuse and over growing in necessities of war, which have to be attended to.
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