_ 224 _ Chapter: 188 It was said earlier that Safar Khan the captain of the King of Cambay, whom he seats as Envoy to the Turkish Sultan to ask him for help, set off from Diu at the beginning of September 1536. Pursuing his journey, he reached Jidda where he left his fleet and the present he was carrying for the Sultan. He then went by land to Cairo, and from there down the Nile as far as Rosetta, a place on the Nile delta, sixty miles from Alexandria. Having arrived there he presented himself and gave the letters he was carrying to the Sultan, who soon replied to him that that year he was not able to give the King of Cambay the men he was asking for, as he was on his way to city of Belona with the intention of entering Italy from there. He ordered him to leave there the present he was carrying and on his return, he would end the King of Cambay the men he requested. On returning from Belona without having done anything another Envoy went to him from the King of Cambay who said that he had been sent to him because of the King of Cambay's determination to destroy the Portuguese who were in India, as he regretted having allowed then a fortress at Diu. He pressed the Turkish
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