_ 120 _ plagues that people talk about, please God they will come to nothing. Since Your Highness will know about this matter we will say no more. Item: Sir, we swear to you by the loyalty we owe to Goa and Your Highness that the municipal councilors do not write the truth as they should. Jorge Gareses, a municipal councilor, is a servant of the old Marqués, and the Viceroy gives him many bares for the Banda islands and the Moluccas. The Viceroy made Manuel de Saa a municipal councilor in place of Manuel Vasconcellos, and he took six hundred pardaos from his account and paid Paio Ruis de Araujo, a municipal councilor, four hundred pardaos; and so, they do not write you the truth. Item: Sir, the Turks will return to Ormuz better prepared with vessels and men, because this time they came with twenty-five galleys and eight hundred fighting men. If they return and find D. Afonso in India, Ormuz will be lost, because of the neglect and faint heart of the Viceroy. Sir, we remind you of the death of the King of Ceylon and the dishonesty with which his treasury was treated, which was such that the Portuguese lost all credit, and no Moor now trusts a Portuguese. The King of Ceylon was certainly killed, and his treasure taken, for the Moors talk about nothing else.
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