_ 140 _ give them to him in the manner I did last year, which was on condition that [the ships] should be brought to this port to be inspected for forbidden merchandize. Item: On the seventh of this month a carrack belonging to Khwaja Shams-al-Din came from Mocha and brought the same news of Aden which I sent to Your Lordship, saying that the artillery of the galleys he saw at Diu was all in Aden, together with many munitions, and that the Arabs were very afraid that the Turks would attack them before the shereef sent them fighting men. Item: When the shereef saw the Turks behaving in a different manner, spreading themselves around, he turned and attacked them along the coast and has taken the ports from them and killed many Turks. Five thousand had taken a city well into the interior, and when they saw that the coast had been captured, and the shereef had come to attack them. They remained in the city, and it is said that they all died of hunger. Your Lordship can take this news as a certainty because a servant of Khwaja Shams-al-Din passed it on having seen it all occur, and the other men who arrived in the carrack say the same. Item: I am sending to Your Lordship from here, Cannanore, seventeen very well-equipped ships to sail
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