_ 118 _ (14) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1530) Cristovao de Mendonca sent a letter to the Duke of Braganca from Ormuz on the 30th of September 1530, in which he described Bahrain as unhealthy, and that Shah Ismail Safavid was close to the Khorasanians:(14) Sir, I received a letter from Your Lordship informing me that you had not dared to ask permission of the King, on my behalf, to send me. Praise be to God that Reis Sharaf is there. He will tell the truth and not just what they say I asked of him in India. Nor will it be claimed that he helped me here in Ormuz with a single ceitil, either as a gift or a loan. The interpreter also went there and he too will tell the truth, since I could hardly ask him for money, as I found him completely insolvent, so it would have been more reasonable for me to lend him money when, God be
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