_ 221 _ of them beheaded. It is said that seven or eight of those imprisoned, have died. So, I can tell you that everyone trembles before the Turks and do not dare to raise their eyes to look at them, let alone speak, and if they were permitted to leave with their households, not one of them would stay in the country. With all this happening you should observe who suggests you should buy or sell. Because of this the terradas did not leave at the time I wished, and you can imagine that, when they did leave, I had such problems as only the Lord God knows of, and also because of the cadis about whom I have already written. When it was known that the fortresses had been taken, they rebelled and assembled sixty danacos and laid waste to the whole island, and also many settlements in the Basra direction. On one occasion they fought on the river with the commander and killed ten of his Turks, they took four or five terradas carrying goods and money from Ormuz and Rishahr and were now returning from Basra to Ormuz. It was the commander who sent out the terradas together with the foists and Mohammed Beg went overland with three hundred cavalry and killed a good many of the cabis were killed and many danacos were captured from them. All the same the terradas got through from there with great
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