_ 227 _ of his to build them. He had been ordered to go to conquer India with them but had not gone as the Sultan had ordered them to be killed when he learnt that he wanted to give Constantinople to the Emperor. Having decided to send this armada to India he gave the command to Soleiman Pasha the King of Cairo. Knowing that the armada would go there he had asked for the command from the Sultan. He had been an official of the royal bedchamber and also earlier for his father. Being a Christian and a native of Morea he had been given a tribute as a boy. The sultan had ordered him to be castrated for this position at the bedchamber, so that could go among his wives, the cause of his reaching so high a position because whilst the same Turk was reigning, for whom as I said he was an official of the royal bedchamber, Hamid Pasha rose against him who was the King of Cairo, Alexandria, Rosetta, Damascas and Meada and the lands and far as Jidda. The Sultan had given him this kingdom because in the siege of […] Rhodes he had invented the walls of stone with which it had been captured, and he had built the wooden fortress in which the Sultan had lived during this siege.
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