_ 218 _ may learn which will serve you. As for timber, João Camelo should have the factory at Bassein, and it will be in your interests, because he was clerk there and will know how to serve you. Concerning these persons, I indicate for the said charges I have no more cause to say anything myself, but that they will truly know how to serve you faithfully. In my opinion the Moluccas are now secure, Gilolo having been taken and destroyed and the fortress of Tidore demolished. All will give obedience to the fortress, which Your Highness will know of and of the gallantry of Bernaldim de Sousa. Thus, Your Highness must still write to King Aeyro because it is certain that as King, he has the land secure, and the Spaniards cannot enter the land. For this reason, Sir, order that the King make gifts of offices, which should be given to the locally married men, because I believe it is judged a great honour and it is right and necessary that he does it, Sir, and recommend that he always writes to you of his captains, if they should cause grievances in the land, in order that the King may trust that justice will be done and that the captains may be in some fear of this. Summary of pp. 192-5 (part) I also remind Your Highness of the need to take good counsel regarding the security of the Moluccas, which being remote are always in need of support.
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