_ 39 _ In the same year (1563) Simao da Costa sent a letter to Dom Sebastiao, Goa on the 11th of December 1563, regarding the arrival of the Turkish envoy to Ormuz to conclude a peace agreement:(8) Sir, In the year 1562 an envoy of the Turk sent by the Pasha of Basra came to Ormuz to ask the Viceroy of India for peace. In Ormuz, where I serve Your Highness, I was enlisted to bring him to India and to present him to the Viceroy, which I did. From Goa, by order of the Viceroy, I myself took him back to Ormuz and from there to Basra so that I could note where Basra was and what entrances, forces and defences it had, together with its fleet of galleys. I would also observe how the land was governed and I was (8) Document no. and reference.
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