_ 75 _ (11) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1512) Duarte Galvão sent in 1512, a letter to Afonso de Albuquerque explaining to him what had happened to the Muslims due to division, and that Islam must be fought:(11) Since you departed for Malacca, there has been a constant stream of conjectures and rumours here to the effect that India had been lost, so we have been speculating on the reason for this. The reverse seemed to me to be the case and I always said so to the King, because what happens out there is beyond our understanding and in God’s power and hands rather than our own. Moreover, I was hoping for better news, because if something bad had happened there, we would have already known about it through Cairo, as new usually travels that way, many months before we receive it from our ships.
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