informing that:
-he together with the mamālīk sulṭānīya and those Faranj in his company had fought with the people of Shirīna on 10/04/0865, that they had besieged its qalʿa, that they had killed 8 persons of the Faranj in Shirīna, and that they had taken a similar number captive. Further, they had fought with the people of Shirīna a second time, during which they had killed the ṣāḥib al-shurṭa of its qalʿa. Another of their ʾuẓamāʾ had thrown himself into the sea and had drowned.
I say, ‘They were drowned because of their sins and then made to enter a fire’ (Koran LXXI: 25)
-that he had seized 5 of them
-that the queen, the ruler of Shirīna (Cerines) and sister of Jākumu, the ruler of Cyprus, had gone from Shirīna to Rhodos, in order to ask help from it
-that they had overcome a number of ships that had come from the Faranj to the aid of the aforementioned queen
-that he had taken prisoner more than 100 of them
He informed the sultan that:
-that he had started to besiege a number of towers of the qalʿa of Bāf (Paphos), after (its inhabitants) had suffered hardships from him,
-that he urged the sultan to send troops quickly, before help from the Franks, the people of al-Maghūsa (Famagusta), the Genoese, could reach them, or reach the people of Shirīna from others than the Genoese.