_ 193 _ (26) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1545) Bernadine de Sousa sent a letter to King Dom Joao III, on the 20th of November 1545, stating that the Turks were coming to Ormuz:(26) Senhor, Many times have I written to Your Highness respecting my services here, and in all my letters I request Your Highness to be pleased to institute an enquiry as to the truth of what I state, for even should the services of all of us out here, who are in service, be very different one from the other, yet in writing and in pleading I know we are all alike, and if I urge this so much it is because we are all confident out here that Your Highness desires nothing better than to favour us each one as he merits, and although my brother Diogo Lopes informed me that if this year Your
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