_ 226 _ power of their kings and of the Portuguese Jorge informed him broadly about everything, making out that the power of the King of Portugal was of no consequence in India; and that with an armada he could throw the Portuguese out and take for himself what they had taken. At this moment the senior wife of the King of Cambay arrived at Constantinople with much money and jewelry. She related to the Sultan how her husband died, asking him to send an armada to India to eject the Portuguese. At the same time the Envoy arrived at Constantinople from the King of Xael, who was bringing a present of eighteen Portuguese whom he had captured in his port with others as I said earlier. Among them was one Alvano Madeira, who professed to be a pilot, from whom the Sultan also learn about India and of the power there of the King of Portugal. He found that it agreed with what Jorge had told him. Alvaro Madeira offered to go in the armada if he should send one to India, because he knew the route well and the entrances to the ports there. Chapter: 189 With his information and much more that the Sultan had he decided to send an argada to India to see if he could take it from the Portuguese. The ships for this armada were in Suez as he had ordered Ibrahim Pasha a very great friend
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