_ 85 _ letters which I at once wrote an agreement was reached, and please God everything will be done convenient for the service of His Highness. Khwaja [Moguor] is there while the business is being completed, and the fortress will not be handed over. I shall write to Your Lordship later. Item: The Turks who are in Basra, that is [Belal] Muhammad Pasha sent his ambassador here to ask for peace with letters and speeches of great friendship. With this embassy came Fayat, a captain of caravans who used to come with them frequently from Turkey. The captain discussed this matter with all the leading men of this kingdom, and it was agreed that until a message came from Your Lordship it was necessary to answer him softly and allow terradas and merchants to leave. I advised the captain on this and requested him on Your Lordship’s behalf that until your message came the business should be held up with all possible mildness and good treatment for the sake of the revenues of the customs house and the peace of the country. Since they are requesting peace with such insistence, a thing which no King requests, it is best to concede it to them and temporize, since there is nothing else we can do at the moment. Item: A terrada came from Jeddah with news that a Captain of the Turks with twenty and more sails attacked
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