_ 25 _ The other is the King of the islands of Maldiva who became a Christian here, convinced and instructed by the Fathers of the Society; he is about 18 to twenty years of age, a young man of good…... and it seems, if he is instructed and admonished, that he will yield good fruit, he placed (?) himself in my hands so that in the name of Your Highness, and like to a thing of your own, to watch over him and yield his life, all which I thought good; it is the opinion of the Bishop and of Antonio Gomez, and of the Fathers of the Order of Saint Dominic, that I ought to marry him to a Portuguese woman because if he was guided, and lived like a Christian. He would forget the customs and life of the Moors, and my opinion was to await for this instructions from Your Highness. They constrained me with so many reasons that I should have him wedded to a daughter of Francisco de Mariz and of Maria Penheira, his relative Amrique de S (?) urging me to deliver up to him the islands for him to govern for whom he should wish, it did not seem to me to be in reason that they should be governed unless by ordinance of Your Highness, and by he whom in your name, I should be ordered to choose as the one most fitted and judged the best one to serve Your Highness, and would do what should be in reason, and act justly in the Land; and owing to the
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