_ 137 _ (28) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1547) Khawaja Shams al-Din Ghulam sent a letter to Dr. João de Castro, Cannanore, on the 8th of September 1547, and it is mentioned that the Turks were in a bad condition, as many of them were killed:(28) Sir, I kiss your lordship’s hand because you are so pleased by the news which I sent you from Aden, and, as I knew how glad you would be, I wanted to be the first to send it to you. On 7 September one of my carracks arrived from Mecca. The news she brought me is that that sailing in the straight are in a poor state and that shareef is very triumphant, having seized all the seaports, killed many fighting dead, and cut all the roads that the Turks could not return, and they will all be overtaken by starvation. All
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