_ 231 _ go to Ormuz and capture it and make himself well-fortified there. Help would then quickly be sent to him. Chapter: 190 Having left Suez Soleiman Pasha made the greatest speed he could in his journey in order that it should not be known in India before he arrived. For this he had taken great trouble in order that no vessel should go through the Strait before he did. He took three days from Suez to El Tur and from El Tur five days to Jidda, where he was delayed twelve days. He had wanted as was the custom to entertain the King of Jidda, but as the Iatter well knew of the duplicity of the Turks, especially Soleiman and how cruel and tyrannical he was he had evacuated the city and saved himself. Here soleiman added to his fleet seven vessels which were there belonging to the King of Cambay, three naos of Hamezui the Financial Secretary of Cairo and two of the King of Jidda, thus making seventy six in all. Four days after leaving Jidda he reached Kamaran and on the way he went to Azibele, a place on the Arabian coast, whose Lord was a Turk called Nakod Hamid after receiving Soleiman hospitably Soleiman ordered him to be beheaded, the only reason being his cruelty. He then gave the lordship of the territory to Captain Mustafa.
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