_ 163 _ understand everything else I could say about this. I confess that I am very sorry when I see neglect in things on which much depends because they also concern me, since I live in Ormuz, and I have my family here, and houses and property. No harm can befall this land without my being seriously affected by it, apart from my office, which in time of hazard, danger and personal oppression is what I least remember. Accept this and these observations I give you as coming from a man who owes you much and who has received many honours and rewards from you, and who speaks as a member of your household, as I should not do if I did not have the reason I have given. The news has just arrived via Basra that Suleiman Pasha was dispatched from Cairo to come back here and that he has been killed by poison. I do not take this seriously because no one has come whose word can be believed. My man will come and we shall know from him what is happening there. May Our Lord increase Your Highness’s life for many years in His service. From Ormuz, 22 September 1545. I the Guazil kiss Your Lordship’s beneficent hands. To the Lord Governor, my Lord, from the Guazil of Ormuz.
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