_ 222 _ difficulty, and those that will leave here, will risk persons and goods until the route is cleared; this cannot be done until these men have vessels, and at present they do not. They are very poorly equipped and lack many of the things they need. From what I have seen, I truly think that these things cannot be achieved without the great fuss which has always occurred, and without the great fears to which the men of this country have always been subject. When these terradas were about to leave, a [...] a caravan arrived, in which five or six merchants were also travelling. They were on their way to Ormuz with many lengths of camel-hair cloth and other goods which they do not wish to sell here because they have heard that there they are worth their weight in gold in Ormuz, and this means that I have not been able to obtain any here. For this reason you will obtain there what you want, and I think that they will be much cheaper there. Among these merchants there came from Aleppo an Armenian, who will give no news from anywhere, saying he will not do so for anything that it will have no result. Another also came, a Jew, who assured me that the arrival of the Turk is not certain, as I have written to you. Now they all say with one voice that the Turk will go to the
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