_ 29 _ (8) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1547) De Manuel de Lima sent a letter to Alvaro de Castro, from Qalhat, on the 26th of April 1547, in which he mentioned a news that the Turks are coming to Ormuz:(8) Sir, I wish to begin by telling you that, thanks be to Our Lord, I am in good health and disposed to serve you in all matters on which you give orders; I shall deem it a favour if I can be of use in some matter among the many in which you may order me to serve you. I arrived here in Kalhat on 25 April and found here so many mangoes and such fine ones that I believe I may be getting fat. But apart from the mangoes I found here some caturs commanded by Gonçalo Falcão(A), and he gave me (A) Gonçalo Falcão was in command of the St. Thomas bastion during the first siege of Diu. (Correa, III,pp 857,858).
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