_ 37 _ sent to the Turk to ask for fighting men to capture his father’s lands and to ask to become his subject. The Turk had sent a captain with fifteen thousand men and taken part of coast; he had ordered this captain not to return until he had made himself master of the whole Strait; and the Iman had retreated to the mountains. He has ordered this captain to summon the captain of the four foists who went to Muscat and he was already with him and the foists which had remained in Mocha. The Lord of Zeila had returned to take possession of his lands which Prester John had captured, and the Turk had sent fighting men to help him regain to his possessions. My brother wrote to me with this news in September telling me to be sure to send it to Your Lordship. I kiss Your Lordship’s hands for the honour and favour you have paid me and your nephew, which I deserve from Your Lordship. God increase Your Lordship’s life and estate. From this city of Cannanore, 13 May 1547. Your servant, Khwaja Shams-Al-Din Ghulam. (With a wax seal) To the lord Governor, From Khwaja Shams-Al-Din Ghulam.
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