_ 170 _ However, although Our Lord the King may suffer some small loss in this matter in the revenues of the Custom House of Ormuz, it is my opinion that Your Lordship ought not to encourage any friendship or trade with this people from Ormuz and should order its defence and upkeep, so that nothing goes to Basra, either from Ormuz or from these parts. The captain should take great care to attend to this and, while time allows, prepare some cutters for El Katiff and Bahrain with some trustworthy person in charge of them to ensure that nothing goes to Basra and this [will prevent] any benefit to these people. According to what I also know about the Turks, they are not obedient to their captains and especially when they are not paid. As a result, if the ships do not go to Basra and the port is closed and brings in no money, the soldiers will be badly paid, and it will be worse and there will be fewer and fewer people of Basra, and their King will thereby gradually acquire fresh courage and want to enter and do what the people of Aden did. I remind Your Lordship that the best answer for these wicked people is to expel them from this region as soon as
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