_ 126 _ force, and others willingly, and such (sic) is the tyranny that, may it please God that the plagues which people speak of may not be fulfilled, and for as much Your Highness will have already known in part all this affair, do we desist from saying further. Senhor, we vow to you by the Faith we owe to God, and to Your Highness, that the Aldermen (vereadores) do not write the truth as they should, because Jorge Garces is Alderman, and servitor of the Old Marquis, and the Viceroy gave him many bahares for Banda and Malluco, and to Manoell de Vasconzelles, and the Viceroy deprived him of six hundred pardaos from his account, and to Pago Rodriques de Arango, Alderman, paid him four hundred pardaos, and in this manner they do not write the truth, nor did do so. Senhor, the Turks are sure to return to Ormuz, and better equipped and furnished with better men, because there have come now twenty-five galleys and eight hundred fighting men and if they return, and find Dom Affonso in India, Ormuz will be lost on account of the great neglect and carelessness of the Viceroy. Senhor, we remind you of the death of the King of Coulam(?) of the King of Syllou and of the cruelties which
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