_ 212 _ this factory, because I am in such a relationship with your officials that I cannot have what is mine that you order to be paid to me, and your officials do not consider I am worth paying for serving you. Of those five men that I mentioned earlier, Your Highness, choose one for the accounts and one to go as captain and factor for spices at Ormuz. should necessarily be captain of the nao in order to serve you and you should give him a salary of 1000 pardaos because he has obligatory expenses. He would not be able to carry his own spices, except for 30 bahares of clove and nutmeg. There must be a guard over the storage place for the goods, where the factor does not lodge, nor will he have more than one key, as each has. It is not suitable for them to lodge in the factories. Your Highness must not send men of learning for the accounts, but Antonio Afonso or Francisco de Maya were formed thereby and in your treasury, in which they are more learned than all those in Paris. By adding good accountants to Vedor da Fazenda's staff each one would work for whomsoever does the best for him, and this is the truth. With the nature of unlearned men, they obstruct your service, and they are throwing out the accountant Antonio Afonso, who was bringing things on to the right course. Sir, I have now spoken of the treasury. It is twenty years
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