_ 33 _ (10) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1547) A letter was sent by Manuel de Vasconcelos of Goa, to D. Joao de Cas-tro, Cannanore, on the 12th of May 1547, explaining the situation in Ash-Shihr:(10) On eighth May a carrack belonging of Khwaja Shams-Al-Din arrived from El-Shihr, bringing him a letter from his brother in Jeddah. The news he gave him are as follows: Item: A son of the Iman, Lord of the mountain region, rebelled against his father and had sent to request the Turk for fighting men to capture his father’s lands and to make him his subject; the Turk sent him a captain with fifteen thousand men, with whom he has already taken the greater part of the coast, and he commanded these men not to leave until they are masters of the whole Strait.
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