_ 135 _ it to you. If this had also been so at the time I left Ormuz, it would have been right that it should be known. There is no news of the Emperor and his interests except that it is said that there is no dispute between him and the Turk, and that each of them is in his place. When the caravan arrives there can hardly fail to be someone who will give some news. Nothing is being heard from Suez either, nor even about the [grules](?), and so it appears that everything is at peace. No foists nor other vessel has been built up to the present, nor have preparations been made to build any. Nothing can be built in Baghdad without it being known at once. From what I see of these men they go around talking of nothing but the matter of making a profit in this place and from the bandar. It may well be they keep to themselves what they want to, but also, in spite of all this, you should not forget matters which affect your honour, so that if in your period of office they wish to meddle with something, they should find out who they are dealing with. From El-Hasa and the Bahrain coast there is no news except that El-Hasa itself is in the hands of the Turks,for formerly it was also in the hands of the King of Basra. As captain of the fortress there is an Arab called Abdullah,
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