_ 220 _ It was strong and with good artillery and two hundred riflemen they had not been able to take it. In the meantime, as the King had written to Baghdad requesting that the necessary men be sent to him to avenge the harm done to him at Areka, it was decided that one thousand seven hundred cavalry and three hundred riflemen should come, and these brought great assistance to [Zequia]. They charged the Turkmens so that they were obliged to take to their vessels with great difficulty and with the loss of some men and horses, which drowned crossing the river when these men arrived. When the Turkmens left in the manner they did, there was great joy in this land, especially among the Turks, and great firing of cannon. The men have not yet reached Basra because they are pacifying the country and restoring the fortresses which had been captured to their previous condition. When everything has been settled, they will come. While all these events were taking place, the King was assured that there were in the country men who were writing to tell the Turkmen and the men of [Gizare] what was going on for they are all the same nation and some of them are kinsmen. For this reason he had twenty or thirty of the most prominent imprisoned and immediately had three
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