_ 39 _ (6) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1542) Diogo Lopes de Sousa sent a letter to D. Estevado da Gama, the Governor of India, stating that the nobles of the Straits had sent messengers and ambassadors to the Turks, informing them of the presence of the Turks in the Red Sea(6): Sir, The news I have here, I do not know how certain it is but the Moors of this country and those of Cambay assert strongly that it came from Basra is that all the sharifas of the Strait have sent ambassadors to the Turk and informed him that the Portuguese have been sailing in the Strait for two years and now the Governor in person has been there. They had destroyed many towns and these were now in such a state that if the fleet returned there they all had no alternative but to surrender.
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