_ 121 _ Item: Sir, we inform you that the Viceroy sent to ask Adil Khan for loan of one hundred thousand pardaos in gold. Adil Khan answered the ambassador that because of their friendship the Viceroy should provide him with men and cannon because he was surrounded by enemies, yet the Viceroy was asking him for money. The ambassador is still there. He also sent to ask [Yzamaluco?] for money, and Francisco Manhos went there; and he asked Kwaja [Semesadym] at Cannanor for money, which shocked many Moors who were saying that the King of Portugal, although he was a great king, was begging for loans of money. Item: This city has lent the Viceroy twenty-two thousand pardaos and apart from many sums he has extorted from the city and has already used, he has taken an excessive amount with which to pay the men of the fleet who went with the Viceroy. Item: Sir, send a man of good judgement and knowledge and prudence to India, a man who does not issue masses of papers contradicting each other on everything; and send noblemen who are. Item: Sir, here they are drawing up documents about the Royal dockyard and the Arsenal. But Your Highness commands others to be drawn and the Arsenal. But Your Highness commands others to be drawn up by
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