_ 425 _ Document No. (8): The King of Portugal sent a letter to Afonso de Albuquerque from Lisbon on the 8th of August 1516, after he received the news of the death of Afonso de Albuquerque, listing his great deeds over the course of ten years. (page no. 43) Document No. (9): The battle that took place between the Turkish Sultan and the new Sultan of the Mamluks, in which he was defeated, and what the Turkish Sultan did, and how he ruled Cairo and the whole country in 1517. (page no. 47) Document No. (10): Dom Gothery sent a letter to Lopo Soares, on the 3rd of January 1517, in which he mentioned that the merchants in Aden were awaiting the arrival of the Portuguese forces to save them from the Mamluks. (page no. 53) Document No. (11): The Viceroy of India, Lopo Soares, who was appointed by the King of Portugal in March 1516, sailed with a large campaign on Bab al-Mandab, and the surrounding islands and cities, up to the city of Jeddah, at the beginning of February 1517. (page no. 56) Document No. (12): The Viceroy of India was still at Bab al-Mandab at the beginning of July 1517, amidst storms and lack of water, moving
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