_ 36 _ (11) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1547) A letter was sent from Khwaja Shamsuddin Ghulam to D. Joao de Castro, Cannanore on the 13th of May 1547, explaining the situation in Ash-Shihr:(11) Sir, My brother wrote to me from Jeddah telling me news he had of the Turk’s fleet, which is as before, and told me that the Turk is said to have given the fleet to a former servant of the Jewish Khan(A), who is a captain of Skanderbeg, to come to India, but it is known when he will come. He also told me that the Imam’s son had rebelled against his father, who is Lord of the mountains and had (A) The Jewish Khan, captain of the King of Cambay’s Abyssinians, mentioned by Gaspar Correa (vol 14), taken prisoner at the battle of Diu and confined in a tower at Goa.
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