_ 134 _ I declare to Your Highness that I always, and continually, when any news occur here, write them at once mutually to the Factor, and he, with his usual courtesy always answers that he has received them; and he on his side tells me, that all news received from this, he at once sends to Your Worship, and now these that I am forwarding are of great trustworthiness, to which you may give faith, and as they are of great importance I wished to send them by twice repeated routes, namely via Rome, and via Flanders, and the same shall I do in all future time because thus am I bound to do, and far more so because I am a Portuguese; I ever remain at the orders of Your Highness whose hands I kiss. Your Highness humble servitor and vassal. Pedro Caroldo From Venezia on the twenty fourth of November one thousand and five hundred and thirty-one. The news we have here at present in this city of Venezia are as follows:- Item: A man who came from Alexandria, and who had been also to Suez, a place of the Red Sea, states, he saw that they are building over there in Suez, and in other places in Alexandria and in Roseto forty eight galleys, ten galeas, twenty ships and ten foists, in all eighty sails; and that
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