_ 40 _ Qishn and stayed there, and some men from the same carrack, natives of the place with whom I spoke, went overland to El-Shihr. The news they bring are as follows:- in Qishn there were thirty lascars and a negro who was their captain, who are under the control of the King of El-Shihr, and they say that the town and the region are much damaged and in ruins. They said that a carrack belonging to the King of Cambay, which was on her way from Ormuz, arrived there, and they captured all the money she was carrying, and in return for the great amount of money they had taken they gave her by force goods worth nothing. The carrack form Mahim received poor payment for the goods she was carrying. They said that in El-Shihr there were five or six hundred Abyssinians from Ras Fartak and Ras Naws and a few Turks and four beached foists, and it is said that they come from Cairo and are the ones which last year came to Kalhat; both these towns, Qishn and El-Shihr, were keeping a very careful watch on us in the belief that men from here would side with asking of Qishn. They were all fearful at the news from Diu, and there was no news at all of the Turks. There was only news of what those in Basra had done, and
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