_ 437 _ In the same year (1568) Excerpts from letters arrived from Constantinople on the 26th of April 1568, mentioning that the Portuguese had occupied Aden, and that there was a revolution in the Arabian Peninsula on the Red Sea coast:(34) That the Turk in person was expected there on the following day, with his punta or Court. That Pijali had attained to arm and launch twenty galleys, bends those that had been assigned him, without entailing any expense to the Treasury of the Turk, and with the following joined together would, with those launched, and those already gone to Alexandria; and with those of the guards of Rodes, Xia, and Metelem amount to the number of ninety galleys without the saxeles of the Corsairs. (34) Document no. and reference.
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