ABSTRACT
The Persians were reduced to such a state of abject terror, that on sighting any sail at sea they fancied it to belong to the General Ruy Freyre’s Armada, and with his name they hushed their babes at the breast, whilst the peoples inhabiting the border districts of the Persian coasts obeyed him more readily than the Sultan, both because they saw themselves delivered from the intolerable yoke of the latter, as because they freed themselves from the perpetual fear in which they otherwise were.
