_ 54 _ came that forty thousand Turks were killed including their captain. The news is certain, because two hundred [...] Christians of Turkey fled for fear of the Sophy and [...] to the Red Castle, and now the Grand Master has sent vessels to bring them here. Sir, when the Sophy’s men were attacking [Antalya] we thought we might help them with the galleys [...] by giving them artillery and ships if they needed them. When we got there, they had already gone, and we did not speak with them. The Turk, seeing that he could not inform [Antalya] by land that he was [nas focas ? =Foca] sent [Cortegelj], the brother of [Canalo], with four foists to give him information and help. We were at Finike with the galleys, and before daybreak they came against us and we took all the soldiers and he was killed in the fighting. Many Turks died, but none of us. Sir, this captain of the Sophy has done things that no king who has ever been would not consider himself fortunate to do, with so few soldiers that they do not amount to thirty thousand men in all, but they are all mounted on horses and armed. The Turks are frightened, for they do not know where these people came from, and they say that they are devils and not men. It is said that in this last battle five thousand janissaries were killed and many men.
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