_ 458 _ (81) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1546) Sebastiao Lopez Lobato sent a letter to D. Alvaro de Castro in Ormuz on the 30th of November 1546, mentioning the arrival of the Turks to Muscat, and that the Turks were in a great mobilization to attack Basra:(81) My Lord, The Lord God will surely allow you to be as old and as honoured as your desire and to see the Lord, your father, spend his old age in peace and quiet. Then will Your Honour realize that old people find the slightest task hard labour, including writing. Therefore, I request Your Honour to take into account that I am an old man and only write to you occasionally. Please excuse me from writing many letters to His Lordship in which Your Honour will see matters of interest among those which will be sent to him. I did not write to
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