_ 129 _ provide the country with whatever is needed if it finds itself in difficulty. He is called Muhammad Beg. He is very just man and much more inclined to good than any of the others. These last two men are not here because at the time of my arrival they had gone to the lands of Shah Tahmasp to capture a fortress called [Doreca], which they did without fighting because those in it had abandoned it. These two gentlemen went to the fortress with one thousand five hundred soldiers, six hundred of them cavalry overland with Azen Pasha, the others by sea with Barun Beg in two foists belonging to the King of Basra, for the others had all been destroyed by fire with forty barges of the kind in which they came here. In addition, there were seven or eight terradas from Bahrain. All those who went by sea are musketeers. This fortress is located eight or nine leagues from the bar of the river of Basra, and to do this they had to go out into the open sea. It is also said that as soon as they have provided the fortress with everything needed, they will attack Rishahr either by sea or by land. I do not know if they will do this and subsequently decide to take possession gradually as much as they are
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