_ 182 _ that this cannot be so and that they are spreading this news in order to conceal something else they are doing. The guazil of Bahrain wrote a letter to Rais Sharaf and told him to show another letter which Muhammad Pasha, the captain of Basra, had written to him, in which he says that the Grand Turk is coming to attack Shah Tahmasp with a large force, and that he will come to Baghdad. He says that the Turk’s grand courier had arrived at Basra, and that he said these things in his letter. The guazil Rais Sharaf showed it to me. In the time of Luís Falcão a servant of Muhammad Pasha came to Bahrain and gave a tunic to the guazil of Bahrain, which he accepted. In his mosque he is called Mafamede. He minted a coin for the Turk in the mosque by bribing this servant of Muhammad Pasha telling him that he should do this immediately. Although this happened in the time of Luis Falcão, only now is it known for certain. It seems to me that they obey Muhammad Pasha. The guazil of Bahrain wrote me a letter but did not make any mention of these matters. As for Bahrain, it seems to me that the Turks will see if they can seize it either by trickery or by force, so that they are nearer to Ormuz. In Bahrain, counting terradas
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