_ 141 _ Although I have written via Flanders in detail to Your Highness I will not leave repeating part of the news which I have already forwarded, and I state that Ms. Pero Zenbaylo the Ambassador of this Seigniority of Venezia who has lately arrived to Constantinople, on the first day of this last October of the present year, writes to this his seigniority, that the Portuguese had now anew, not six months hence, taken two ships of the Moors near Autor which is a place and port of the Red Sea, and close to the port of Ziden, and that they are causing great destruction in regard to Mecca, so much so, that the Turk is so annoyed about this that he cannot endure it, and the fleet that he is now making, according to what is said, is on account of this Mecca affair rather than for anything else. This is what the said Ambassador writes these here say, that in a light manner the Portuguese may have already taken the city of Dio, since they had gone so far within the Red Sea, and the Consul of the Venetians who is at Alexandria, writes to this seigniority the same thing, that the Portuguese had reached as far as Autor a place of the Red Sea, where the Turk is reconstructing his fleet, and that there, the same Portuguese, captured two ships of the Moors, and that they are making themselves felt all along the Red Sea.
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