_ 205 _ worth 3000 pardaos if only Your Highness is allowed to sell it. Ginger also should be forbidden. A nao loaded with cloves, mace, cinnamon, ginger and four hundred quintals of pepper should be sent each year to Ormuz. With these spices that they send there they should make 70,000 pardaos each year if it is forbidden for anyone else to carry them there, or more cloves, nutmeg and mace from the Moluccas or Banda brought to be sold in India. Nor would anyone be able to carry or send any away from this coast, nor would any Moor be able to carry any. Thus, each would be happy to sell it to Your Highness's Vedor da Fazenda, who would buy it and thus every Moor would come to make a contract at this city with Your Highness's Vedor da Fazenda for the spices and they would be given respecting these spices permission to be able to carry them abroad wherever they wished, as they do now. In this fashion this city should become greater, and Your Highness would gain profit and make treasure in India from these spices, because I do not feel otherwise concerning this. This city is the right place for the factory for these spices and this would be shown to be the case. Your Highness must order that all the goods which come from Mozambique, Malindi and all other parts come to be
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