_ 57 _ (8) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1542) The description of the state of India, the Gulf region, and the early governors of the Gulf:(8) How the Turks captured the fortress of El Katiff; how the viceroy D. recover it; of the other captains that he dispatched abroad; about how D. Diogo de Noronha became lost in the Mazagon River; and what happened to him until he came to Goa As soon as the Turk became lord of Basra, he immediately wished to become master of the entire Persian Strait on both sides, as far as the island of Ormuz, which he could not dismiss from his thoughts because of the enormous trade and commerce that it attracted from all the lands of the East. He thus instructed the Pasha of
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