_ 208 _ There is not a factory in which Your Highness's goods are gathered, nor instructions given to the officers. Your Highness's merchandise goes to rented houses to which the only key is held by the factor, who hands it to his men who then steal and become rich. To those in the prison the factors sell Your Highness's goods very cheaply so that they may pay their debts and some so they may pay the same factories where they buy and also send to Bengal and other ports, where they lose by the heavy expenses they have and bad sales they make and victualling they have to pay for. Thus, they lose and Your Highness's goods are lost. Thus, Your Highness must provide so that those who have served merit reward, and everything enables the saving of money and safeguarding in this way. I learnt from officers that with 2500 pardaos one could erect a fine building with a covered areas for cloves, one for nutmeg, and mace, one for cinnamon, one for ginger, another for pepper and another for paving stones and bricks and other things relating to the ones mentioned. There would be a yard for the balance and above those storage areas a large room with its verandas. This building would be in a place belonging to a bastion which is by the sea in the direction of the city on a large terrace where one would make these covered areas to
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