_ 216 _ In the same year (1547) Domingos Barbodó sent a letter to the governor, from Basra, on the 5th of November 1547, mentioning how the Turks had come to occupy Basra:(57) Sir. After Baltasar Dias had left, when these horses were about to be loaded for Ormuz which was on the twelfth of the month, news reached the King that Mahmud Khan, the captain of five or six thousand Turkmen, had arrived at [Gizare] and come to an agreement with the lord of that land, who is called Ibn Ali Khan (?), that he would give him free passage, vessels and the aid of men and himself, and both were to come to the lands of Basra which are now in Turkish hands. It was said that another captain was on his way with fifteen thousand men by order of Shah Tahmasp. When (57) Document no. and reference.
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