The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 473 _ (84) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1546) Ali bin Alyan, King of Algeria, sent a letter to the commander of Ormuz, Algeria, at the beginning of December 1546, mentioning the arrival of the Turks in Zakia, from there they would head to Basra and then to Ormuz:(84) Royal standard, honour, greatness and celestial wealth, true courage and magnificence be to him who possesses wisdom and divine grace, increased and defended by God with a strength of spirit like that of a lion, prosperous in governing lands, the most high and the most illustrious Jesus Christ, to whom every obedient man bows his head; May all grace and praise be bestowed upon Him; and thus to the mainstay of government, a house where all good response, joy and favour, full of judgment and

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