_ 441 _ who has not yet arrived which I regret were not sent by this one who brought these letters, and therefore do I await them with longing. Of the news which likewise had come from Constantinople here I sent Your worship and subsequently there came a gentleman, a son of a neighbour of mine, who was leaving Alexandria on the fourth of March, and said that the dread was very great there, and at Cairo, that the Portuguese should take possession of Adem, and that at his departure they were in Suez all ready to depart thence twenty two galleys and one galleon, but that he did not know what may have remitted. This one who comes from Allepo that departed the 1st April assures me that there were news there that over Adem there were a fleet of sixty sails, and others say thirty, and although by the first advises from Cariro it was said fifteen, and later on by letters of the second instant which his Worship received here on the twenty eighth and from private persons has been heard from Constantinople the arrival of the thirty galleys to Alexandria, Adem being taken by the Portuguese, of which they are greatly discontented here these gentlemen on account of the damage that will accrue to them on their part.
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