_ 438 _ That, with the said Pijali had come Joan Micas in a galley, that they had given him Tomarel, and the personal possession of the Duchy of Neixia, and of the rest of the Islands in the Archipelago which had been given him, and Pijali put him in possession, and all the fleet was coming to join him in Xio; and that in Morca, Lepanto and Patras biscuit had been made for it, and the same was heard, via Corfu. That it was understood the Turks intended going to Alepo to winter there, this coming winter, so as to provide more powerfully for the war against the Moors of Arabia, that had rebelled along the coast of the Red Sea, notwithstanding that they still were embarking men from the Caramania and Susia towards that part. That in the fleet they were embarking some pieces for the battery and munitions capones and oars. From letters of the same place, and from the self-same Baylo, to his Worship of the second of May, and which arrived in Venice on the twenty eighth. That, advises had been received of the arrival of the thirty galleras at Alexandria, and that with these advises, came also the news of the Portuguese having taken Adem on the coast of Arabia, near the strait of the Red Sea, nearly the Key of the whole of that Sea.
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