_ 180 _ or otherwise of which could diminish or increase the obligation and expense in which they place me. It is essential that I despatch the news that I have to India, for which purpose, as you see, great speed is required. In this matter I wish you to send it from where you are, since a decision has to be made about this within a certain time, which as you know cannot be extended. What I want you to do first is to send in duplicate the news of the defeat of this captain and his galleys, which you sent me with great diligence and by special courier, so that the information reaches Tomás de Cornoça and any other place where you have intelligence agents so that they know the news you send me. When this news reaches them, they must tell you at once the means and the route by which it reached them. When news is duplicated it is to be expected that it is true, especially if it agrees exactly or in the major details, as in the case of this you have sent me. It is essential to my interests that we have full intelligence and assurance of this news, because the reputation that my subjects have among my enemies lies in the defeat and loss of those galleys, Our Lord having given them the victory, as I hope. The victory helps me to
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