_ 63 _ tell the truth about these things since they are enemies of the Turks. I am sending to Basra a certain Domingos Barbudo, and he is taking a letter from me to Muhammed Pasha in reply to the one he sent me. I do not send any commitments in it, but only encouraging words in exchange for those he wrote me. As far as Basra is concerned. I must always be sword in hand, for the more words he written the more suspicious and mistrustful I must be. Domingos Barbudo is a man of good reputation here in Ormuz and is knowledgeable and even tempered. He is well-known to the Araba and merchants in Basra and has much experience off the country. In modification of the opinion of these persons, that he should be in Basra. I am ordering him to be there for no more than three months. In that time be can see everything in Basra and will have learnt the news brought by the merchants from Alexanderia and all the other places, and he can be back here at the beginning of November so that all Your Lordship thinks necessary to be done about these matters in High Highness’s service can then be carried out. According to the veterans off this country, almost every year six hundred horses come from Basra, on which
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