_ 181 _ Two of these terradas, which have recently arrived, and which are not from Ormuz, parted from them when Domingos Barbudo arrived there. The nacodas of the terradas and some merchants who arrived in them told me this. They also told me that they had seized a large carrack from Cairo, which belonged to an Arab merchant who left here in the time of Luis Falcão, I am told in order to make foists from her. One merchant who came in one of these terradas told me that he thought, when Domingos Barbudo arrived, they returned the carrack to its owner. This is how matters are in Basra, and there are no merchants there except such a small number that no one is buying any goods. If the Turks sell a horse, they have to do so for cash because they do not want any goods at all. In the letter from Domingos Barbudo which I am sending to Your Lordship you will see what he writes. The merchants and nacodas of these two ferradas which came from Basra all say that a brother of Shah Tahmasp who was allied with the Turk is on his way, that he is coming from one direction with fifty thousand men, and that the Turk must come along the seaward side through some mountains, where there are roads which were made in the past, not far from Baghdad. It seems to me, however,
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