_ 439 _ there it went in brigantines to a territory of the Emperor called Fiume. It returned last September with a Larger quantity. This route is obviously found profitable. It is a great pity that there is no buyer or competitor of contracts and purchases for Portugal; but this commerce of the bankers is being reduced because of Venetion trade, and I think that as it goes by sea the Venetians will try to put a stop to it. In another letter I wrote to Your Highness about the ransom of the Portuguese captives in Cairo. That letter shows that there will be danger if there is a delay in replying. Your Highness must order help to be sent in accordance with your own interests and those of God. The letter is the copy which Bastião Criado took with him. He left here on the seventeenth of this month, and will travel via Genoa, to embark there on a Castilian galley for the port of Santa Maria. To help him, with his journey I gave him twenty cruzados in Your Highness's name, for otherwise it would have been cruelty to see him leave in such need and without other assistance. From a letter from Isaac Bicudo to Thomas de Cornoça it is learnt that Your Highness has sent the Holy Office of the Inquisiton to India, and the Dom Goncalo is to be Grand Inquisitor. I fear that this good act may harm the cause of
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