_ 221 _ regarding these and the other returns from the officers' charges I always lost, for they profited themselves, which, Your Highness, must not be forgotten. Translation of part of p. 195 in full I do not ask for the post of governor of this city of Your Highness, because it seems right to give it to a son of Galvão Viegas, who has now died, but if it does not have to be given to him, do me this favour. In order not to disturb myself with this I occupied myself in all the other things, that he might see that I am for serving him. Earlier I indicated to Your Highness that the Vedor da Fazenda ought to buy all the cloves, nutmeg and mace that the regions of Malacca and Banda may send because having all this in your hands it is going to you at any price you want. If I say that you may send a nao with spices each year to Ormuz I also say that you may stop anyone from being able to take them to Cambay, and you may send to Diu the necessary spices which they sold to the nao that loaded there. They will give much for them and the naos will go to take cargo there and the customs house will earn much more, and the city will rise again, having been completely ruined.
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