_ 194 _ Highness had not favoured me like you have done to may others, it was not from any neglect. But that it was judged best for Your Services that this year no fortress should be given, and which I begged of your Highness to grant, and whereas the case stands thus, I do not despair of Your Highness having already done so, or shall do so, because neither by reason of age or length of services I see here no one better able or who better deserves it than myself. After the departure of the ships last year the Governor Martim Affonzo had news, and trustworthy ones, of the Turks coming to Ormuz, through a Venetian from Cairo, who came for no their reason than to give us the warning, for which reason he had come to make ready and pay for many rowers for Suez, and that all the talk was of Ormuz, and as the Governor had also come to know something of this through three captives who had fled from Suez. He believed what he said and furthermore because Luis Falquam had written that he had heard the same through other ways and was asking succor from him on account of the small force of men there was in the fortress, and the Governor seeing his need, and that some men were necessary, and some one to go with them, sent for me
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