The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 200 _ My dear Father Francisco Vieira(A) must take this letter as for him, and for all my dear Fathers and Brothers, because I cannot write another. Written today, 24 September 1553. Your Aleixo Documenta Indica Vol III 1553-57. (A) Francisco Vieira had gone to Coimbra on 15 January 1544; in 1554 he went to India with the viceroy Mascarenhas and from there went to direct in Ternate in 1557. He was the Superior of this mission. He died in the Moluccas at the beginning of 1561; another person with the same names worked in the Moluccas later.

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