_ 19 _ prohibition available unless the Captains would be satisfied with as little money. As I expect to take from Goa, a thing which could not be, because the greater share of the profits are theirs and those of Baçorá would come to know that trade is forbidden them, and that all they wish for from India and Ormuz should go to them is a great discredit, and with the dread they have of our goods upon Baçorá there will always exist their pretending to have places on the coast of Arabia, and a war with which to occupy us to keep us from going to it, and in warfare much money is spent and men, once it needs every year to have fleets made and it would be better to conclude this affair in one year, either one way or another, and not labour at many. And on taking Baçorá although it might not be able to be sustained in some respects, chiefly by reason of the vicinity of Bagodaa, and on account of being so far from India, and thereby incurring great outlays, it has other inconveniences which would be, it appears, sufficient to stop up the Straits of water from the river they use for drinking, in order to prevent its ever being repopulated, and further if Your Highness should deem it right and consider it to your service to make a fortress in the island
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