_ 53 _ In the same year (1517) 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:(10) Senhor, Today, Saturday, there came a man from Diu who tells me as certain that the terror they are in there of Your Worship could not be expressed how great it was, and that he had learn it from the Portuguese who are there, of those very fortunate ones who resort there, and similarly the other people who perceive it very clearly and were not able to concede it. Some of the merchants who are there from the outside and still proceeding in a hurry dispatch early, and the natives were going to other places more in the (10) Document no. and reference.
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