_ 466 _ he swore on a Moçafo, that from that time forward, he was vassal of the King our Lord, and held that Fortress in his hand, and he would deliver it up as often as the Viceroy of India or the Captain of Ormuz would order him to. On condition that the Captain of Ormuz should concede certain clauses which he would send him, and which he did send within a few days, these to be confirmed by the Viceroy, until the King our Lord should also approve of them; the integrity of what he asked being, that in the event of his going to Ormuz, the King of Ormuz or any Guazil should not interfere with him, or with any suit of his, but only the Captain and Justices of the King our Lord. And if he were withdrawn from Catifa meanwhile, that they should not give him an undertaking by which they would make use of him, that they should assign him a place in the Island of Queixome, where he should be with his own people, and in the case of their being in that Strait galleys of the Turks, they would be obliged to succour him, and to go upon Baçora, or for the conquest of Lama(?) and the whole of that part of Arabia. He asked for no money, nor men, only the favour of the fleet on the sea, and that, the rest of the expense would be defrayed out of what they should be gaining, and some
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