_ 203 _ to the Kingdom of Your Highness and other parts, so that in India no more than 2700 quintals remain. Thus, it is certain that as they use the great amount that there is in India of cloves on the stalk within five years, a quintal of cloves in India may be worth more than 60 pardaos. Given that Your Highness did not want to be informed there of the service I was doing in these parts I ventured to do this with the Viceroy and the Vedor da Fazenda and clearly showed them the profit that Your Highness would receive. They told me to make the arrangements as I wished. Simão Botelho, who is going there, will speak of the great service that I have done in these and other parts to Your Highness's estate, for which I merit not a little reward. Your Highness may know that he has no profit from Banda, nor will he except in the way I describe here. From Banda they have to pay the third and freight in kind, so that from the cloves of such a loading of a nao one should be able to have 35,000 pardaos, which I can assure you of if I go as captain. The captain who goes there would be forbidden to take any other vessel than Your Highness's nao, because if he
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