The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 298 _ Item: To the King of Ormuz, forty leques annually for clothing, amounting to one thousand eight hundred and sixty xerafins ten candils, which are worth five hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and forty reals. ………………………………………………………………..564,140 reals Item: For the expenses paid to the Kings and nobles bordering upon this Kingdom, and for the ambassadors who come to collect them, all of which is given to the guazil for him to pay out personally, two hundred and five leques three azars, amounting to nine thousand five hundred and thirty-six xerafins six candils, which are worth two million eight hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred and ninety reals. ……………………………………………………………… 2,860,890 reals And since, up to the present, the guazils were given two hundred and twenty leques for their upkeep, they are not to be given anything extra from henceforth, apart from the said two hundred and five leques three azars, because what was short was discounted from what they gave to the king of Basra, to whom they have not given anything for the past four years. This was paid up to the present because the officials of this fortress had forgotten to do so. I discounted what had accumulated during the said four years, that is

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