_ 127 _ under his treasury ship were practiced which were of a kind that the Portuguese credit is lost, there is no Moor who will trust a Portuguese, they killed the king of Ceylam and took away his treasury, truly Senhor, the Moors speak of nothing else. Senhor, we make known to you how the Viceroy sent to ask the Idalcom, a loan of a hundred thousand pardaos of gold, and the Idalcao replied to the Ambassador that the Viceroy by reason of the friendship they had should have sent relief of men and bombards he being surrounded by enemies, and now that the Viceroy had sent to demand money, therefore up to the present the Ambassador is still out there, and he also sent to ask for money to Yza Melluco and Francisco Mañhos went over there, and he also asked for money of Canana to Sime-Sadim, a thing which greatly astonished the Moors, who said that the King of Portugal was asking for loans of money when he was so great a Lord. This city lent the Viceroy twenty-two thousand pardaos besides many other extortions which were practiced in the city, and this loan was affected by the city under great pressure, and with this were the men of the fleet paid which went with the Viceroy. Senhor, let Your Highness send to India a man of good judgement and knowledge and careful, a man who upon one affair will not draw up papers one against the other on
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