_ 219 _ Many will judge how Jurdão de Freitas kept the land at peace for two years without any rebellion, keeping the King and governor imprisoned. In this suitable fashion the King was deposed again, and the land was very peaceful. One is able to say that our Lord the King is in possession of the Kingdom of the Moluccas. It is necessary that the other kings be deposed and for the King of Ternate to grow in wealth, so that he accepts his Kingdom from the land of our Lord the King, and rules and governs in the name of Your Highness. The Moluccas is a land where the captains have to go to earn money, and not to satisfy what Your Highness deserves. This may be different in the opinion of some. What I say was given to me by oath. When I gave this opinion to the Viceroy, he asked me what the Moluccas could produce in revenue. If Your Highness claims the Kingdom of the Moluccas in order to gain revenue from it, one should know that in the land one does not pay taxes on anything, and the King is maintained in the following way. The wives who have their fathers maintain him and even firewood and water and those who serve them are given to him. He has a place which gives him sago, which is their bread, another the
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