_ 400 _ On the hand, the Turks have learnt through experience that they inflict damage on India because of how much they have received from her. When they arrived there, they decided on the capture and destruction of Ormuz, with all their forces. It is essential to help and assist it with great effort and force, since this city and its inhabitants have also served and shown their loyalty in every danger in past emergencies. It is not to be expected that less will be done or with less determination in this [situation], which is very different but of much greater importance and need. Moreover, having me as your captain so bound in duty, both to myself and to those who die in the service of my King and Lord, but especially for that of Your Highness, from whom I have received so many honors and favours. I shall do the same for his vassals, particularly for those of this city, because of the [kindness] and love that I have received from them. So, other than imparting to you the news that I have [receive], which is, as I state, that the Turks are bearing down on Ormuz with a great fleet, and the dangers that may befall, I beg of you to be do kind as to help me by lending His Majesty five thousand cruzados, for its relief and to make me ready.
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