_ 35 _ victory, intending to throwing them out of Damascus and its territory. Our great Lord had an army of two hundred at the most. The new Sultan sent an Embassy to the Grand Master of Rhodes with a present of money, asking him to ensure that the Turkish fleet did not reach the ports of Syria. The Master received the ambassador and the present, and answered that he would attend to everything, and that he was very sorry that the Turk was doing so well. [Although the manuscript contains the date 923 the events relate to 1516].
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