_ 34 _ Item: The captain of these fighting men sent for the captain of four foists which arrived at Muscat; he remained with him, and the foists stayed in Mocha. Item: The Suez fleet remains as it was, and some men who came to Mocha, who had been where the Turk was, said that the Turk gave a fleet to a servant of the Jewish Khan, who was a captain under Skanderbeg, to come to India, but it was not said when. Item: After Prester john captured his lands, the Lord of Zeila went to the Turk and requested help from him, and he gave it; as a result he is now master of what was his. This is what the letter said. Item: The nacoda of the carrack said that three caturs belonging to Portuguese had watered below El-Shihr, and they said that they were bound for Malindi; these must be the ones sent by Your Lordship. Item: Sir, I have now been at this fortress for more than two years, and I have not been paid more than one quarter-year of the salary Your Lordship granted me. I beg Your Lordship to order the payment of what is owed to me to be made to sustain me, for here I have nothing but my salary, and my brother-in-law, António Ferrão will confirm this.
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