The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 150 _ (20) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1545) Luis Falcao sent a letter to His Excellency the Governor of India from Ormuz, on the 21st of September 1545, informing him that Suleiman Pasha, the Turkish commander, had committed suicide, and with his suicide his followers had disappeared in India:(20) Sir, From Luís Falcão. I have often written Your Lordship saying that it is quite impossible to give Your Lordship by this […] the many affairs involved in this kingdom and the many troubles in which I find myself every hour, so many and so weighty that I should consider it a great honour and advantage to be able to leave them and go away from this country, if I could. I have often told Your Lordship how bad a trader I

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