_ 439 _ As regards the fleet, it is affirmed what was said above, the current opinion being that probably the whole bulk of the galeras of the fleet may number is hundred vessels more or less, counting the galeras of the guard of Alexandria. By a letter from Alepo of the first of April, one thousand five hundred and sixty eight. As regards the war of Jaman, and Arabia on the coast of the Red Sea, great number were being collected for that war, to proceed to all parts, lately there have come three hundred Janizaires from Constantinople to proceed to Damascus, and these are to remain to guard the City, and all those that were there to go with the Bassa, and also here, it is written, many men more going at the expense of the King, and therefore it is said that the armies of the said Jaman were very powerful.
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