_ 62 _ the gulph of Jaça (?) and the Leuhame (?) nevertheless all this, he provides himself via Constantinople with many things, and now, at present, he provides himself as I have stated, by another letter which I wrote via Xis, and now we have most trustworthy news, how it is his design to make twenty galleys and ten bastardas to which he is inspiring great haste, and this he does by advice of Alvaro Vaz de Fonsequa who has been already made Mameluke, and proceeds in the same undertaking. I remember long time ago writing about this to Your highness, and that I then stated that a remedy should be put by sending two more galleys to those parts where the said ships are made, so that before they are built, or equipped, they may be burnt, everyone believes that the said ships will be made ready during the whole month of September next, but I do not think so, that they can be made ready then, nevertheless. Let Your Highness provide for this if you have not already foreseen it, and do not think lightly of this, because if small heed is paid to this now, further on there will be less regard paid to Your Highness and you should know that the Soldan cares for naught else but this, and if he succeeds in this, you may hold it for certain that his affairs (?) will always cause great trouble in those parts, and a
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