_ 154 _ because I thought it was a just thing and that Your Lordship would be displeased if it were not done, and also, as I say, because I had been told that Your Lordship had said that you would send him as a favour. I think that the writ might have been left behind through forgetfulness or that it could be brought by Gaspar Pires, who is not here. I say nothing of the matter of EI katiff because Bernaldim de Sousa is on his way and will tell Your Lordship all about it and about this kingdom. I discussed them with him so that he could tell Your Lordship. About the Turks, the news I have is this: on 20 September I was given a letter from a servant of mine whom I have sent to Basra, in which he tells me that as he was going through the bazaar one day, a Moor, who had arrived from Baghdad with a caravan the day he wrote to me, had asked him to go to his house because he had things to tell him which were of importance to Your Lordship’s service. They went together to his house, and what he told him was that he should write to tell me that Suleiman Pasha was dead and that he had killed himself by poison and that he had been dispatched by the Turk to go to India. On his death all his men had dispersed, and the Turk would go back to raise more soldiers and would
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