_ 68 _ the terms employed over there, for it is some thirty two years I am away, and therefore those that be sent to this navigation are warned, and from the side of Arabia, they have to lay to every night, according as I have already written by other letters of Ethiopia in respect that there are many ports, but this is not known for certain; there is not much sea according to the wind, and once before I wrote that it would be as well to send in company of the galleys, four or five caravels, with their upperworks made after the fashion of galleys, in order to be able to row, as this boatswain, if he wishes, will know whom to order, because they are vessels that can be manned with less hands and will cause as much harm, and even more, than the galleys. (Without date or signature) Most serene Senhor, All that I write to Your Highness respecting the preparations the Soldam is making, do not think that it is all no more than a joke, rather let Your Highness take it in true earnest, and now there has come here a man from Cairo who says, that this infidel of an Alvaro the renegade, tells the Soldam that by sending this fleet to quarter him if they do not give him all the Castles, vessels and trade which Your Highness holds in the Indies, and the navies Ethiopia has, and likewise the island of Cocotora, and that King to whom the island belonged
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