_ 195 _ (28) Document no. and reference. Episodes of the year 1536 Luis Sarmiento, the Spanish ambassador to Portugal in Lisbon, sent a letter to the king, on the 18th of July 1536, in which he talked about the Portuguese prisoners in Constantinople:(28) Extract The King of Portugal told me, as he had done previously, that last year, 1536, one of his captains, Dom Manuel de Meneses, had been captured by the Turks at el-Shihr, on the coast of Arabia. Eight-two Portuguese were taken prisoner, which was treachery as the ruler of that country is a tributary of the King of Portugal. Dom Manuel and the other Portuguese were there to trade in spices and other goods with that king, as they were accustomed to do, when he seized them, after killing
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