_ 51 _ In the same year (1547) A letter was sent to the governor from Manuel de Lima, Ormuz on the 23rd of June 1547, mentioning the preparations by the Portuguese in Muscat and Ormuz:(15) At the end of the month of June a carrack arrived at this city of Ormuz from Mecca, and sailing in her was a native merchant who resides here in Ormuz; he told me that he had come via Mecca, and that there were seven or eight oared vessels which he had not seen after that. The Turks detained him there for three days and would not let him go out through the gates in order not to warm the foists [about this] which your Lordship sent to the Strait and that the vessels were ready for the foists to come in through the gates. He thought that these eight ships were bound for Kalhat and Muscat. (15) Document no. and reference.
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