_ 67 _ seen, because he issued orders to our galleys such as no man ever did before both in regard to its navigation as in all else, of their arming and furniture and in all else, so that it seems to me that if Your Highness deems it necessary for your service to order me to do so, if you wish to see him, it will be necessary to send here his carasá lades ....(A) and with which freight there will be sufficient to defray with the profits, his expenses in coming, and this I say because this individual is a married man and has two sons and wants to take his wife if he comes. And also because by sending him and he runs the risk with ships from port to port it would entail a long service and this affair brooks no delay, so that the enemy may not return, and on this point depends whether Your Highness will be a peaceful lord, or to the contrary, if no remedy is given; moreover you are aware that the Red Sea is very windy by reason of the mountains of Ethiopia and Synaey, and because it is a narrow sea. It is true that the prevailing winds run along the coast because it is ever Halo which is South and at other times and in other seasons, mestre and trasmontana and these names are called so in these parts, for I do not remember (A) In this document there occurs an undeciphable word (cucres) (?) and others that are erased.
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