_ 91 _ even if Rais Sharaf is not as loyal to your service as Sheikh Rashid, such a man as Sheikh Rashid was not born in these Moorish parts to govern this kingdom. But Rais Sharaf was greatly feared, and I am afraid that with someone as weak as Sheikh Rashid, the tributes will not be levied so firmly. After the Governor left here, they bought me news about the Turks. A Moor, who was there when they killed Rais Suleiman, said that they were in great disagreement and were killing each other, so that, when they reorganised themselves, they joined up with Mir Hussein. He was the Captain in [Kameran] but they took him on as their Captain Major. Then many men surrounded Aden and captured the water reservoir. They say that about 400 men came, overland and by sea, in galleys that is, in about thirteen large and small sailing ships and that there was fierce fighting in Aden. Most of the men have now scattered all over the land. After they had taken the watering place and the sea, every day the Turks fought against the men in Aden and these Arabs killed many of their men. The Turks suffered great losses daily for which reason it was better for them to leave the city. They went to a place near Aden, called [Aguff), where they also have a very good watering place. There they remain and do not want to reassemble the others who have scattered from there.
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