The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 166 _ (24) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1533) The letter, which was said to be from Rais Sharaf, the judge of Ormuz, revealed that he sent a letter to Rais Suleiman Al-Rumi, the Turkish leader, in 1533:(24) To the opener of the ports of great knowledge and intelligence among all the people, Alquasz, for the service of God, strong and warlike with renown as a lion from whom we all await with wide opened eyes whose hope is always placed in God and commends himself to the Father of Victory, Amyr Coleimao, whom may God preserve under His Guardianship and those who follow him and wish him well, and who go against the enemies. To whom I make known that despite the luck we had with these renegades, our very souls seem to wish to quit our bodies, for so great is the evil and robbery they practice

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