_ 154 _ In the same year (1547) Reis Rukn al-Din sent a letter to the Governor of Ormuz, on the 26th of September 1547, informing him of the Arabs' seizure of Aden from the Turks:(34) Sir, After Luis Falcão left this city, the good news reached us, that God be praised, that Aden has been captured and that its captain and many other Turks are dead. It was captured by Arabs, men whom Your Lordship should, with the help of the Lord God, regard with favour. I am not writing to Your Lordship information of my own because the captain who knows all about it in detail had sent it through one of my men, the nacoda of one of my terradas, who was in Aden and present throughout. In addition, these evil men, after being in Basra, took a fortress of the shah called [Arequa]. The Shah sent a captain (34) Document no. and reference.
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