_ 65 _ and two carracks from the port of Suez to the part of Mocha. They had been ordered to seize all the territory in the power of Imam Saidi, who is a ruler in those parts of Arabia. It seems that before these Turks arrived a son of this Imam Saidi, who had all his father’s fighting men under his control, had fallen out with his father and did not want his father to fight the Turks. When the Turks came, they at once captured the fortress of Ta‘izz and five other fortress, some by fighting, others by trickery, but they could not take the fortress of Sanaa. Although the son was on bad terms with his father, when he saw that he was losing his country, he returned to his father and made friends with him. One night he prepared his men and attack the Turks and killed four hundred of their horsemen. He says that ten or twelve foists are ready to come to Muscat and Kalhat with the next monsoon, which is three months, time, as they came last year, and there is no doubt about it. Three foists and ready in Aden, and the rest are to come from the port of Mocha. Sheikh Abdulla says that there no doubt of their coming, and that many of his friends have told him that since it is certain that these ships will come he should remove his away from Kalhat.
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