_ 52 _ As it appears to me that news is correct, I have ordered nine foists and caturs which are here to be made ready so that they can leave at the end of the coming month of July for Muscat and wait for these Turkish foists if they come in August or at the beginning of September. Sheikh Rabea has written to the guazil of Kalhat that they should maintain in readiness the best tarranquins they have there. These are vessels which have in them ten or twelve Portuguese who now well, and other men if necessary, and that they should place in them some Arab bowmen to give assistance as necessary. I am told by ships coming from Muscat since I passed that way that there were forty or fifty Portuguese there. It would be a great help it these men embark for wherever it seems most appropriate to fight, with the help of Our Lord, against these Turkish vessels if they make for Muscat; and Our Lord will surely give us total victory over them. I considered it to be in the service of His Highness and Your Lordship to send these ships, because the ships leaving here for India are carrying two or three Portuguese and a great deal of money. If these Turks succeed in making themselves ready in Muscat and they also find the ships with many xerafins and tangas in them and leave for the
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