_ 329 _ substitute for actions. Yet, despite everything, he was his friend and enjoyed his friendship. And as for sending Ambassadors to Portugal, it was a very lengthy journey, both by land and sea, and to have to wait for a reply would be too long a time to be fighting the Turk. He had decided that year that he was going to join the Turk, and the King of Portugal would receive news of this. And with the war against the Turk over, he was hoping for an agreement in the war in the land of Mecca, and there were good possibilities for this. Since the Captain General of India had promised transport for his troops against Arabia, he was sending his captains Ibrahim Beque and Bedim Jambica with ten thousand men to take El Katif and Bahrain, which were his but had revolted against him. He begged him to provide passage for these men and this was the way he wanted to prove how good a friend he was. As far as accepting that his men should not act with those of the Sabaio was concerned, it did not seem proper to support this idea because the latter was a coreligionist and carried his emblem, yet he would send a message entreating the Sabaio not to apply himself to war and to make peace with the Governor of India, who was his friend, and to do everything he asked him.
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