_ 424 _ everything he says. I had to give him another ten cruzados and some cloth for a suit, which cost eleven cruzados, and a promise that with the information of António Pinto whom I am expecting here, I will grant him in Your Highness's name a reward, so that he is obliged to come here. In spite of all this, he fell ill with sorrow the same day and was on the point of dying. He has recovered and gone home. António Pinto and Bastião, his servant, who were captives with João de Lisboa are in Messina, as I have been informed by an honourable friend from that city. They were ransomed and with them the rest of the Portuguese who were captives in Cairo, who I believe amounted to thirty or more, for a similar number of Moors and Turks bought in these parts, whom they wanted, together with a further six hundred cruzados, which were paid to them at once. The said António Pinto and Bastião, his servant, had come to be sold and taken away by the Moors. I heard this many days ago, and I am surprised that they have not arrived here or have not written to tell me what they wanted to do, and extremely surprised that they now say that they were waiting there for a message from me, because they had given me no word of the cause or decision of their coming, a few days after I had written to them to hear from them what they wanted.
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