_ 509 _ ambassador of Your Highness, I shall write a letter to Prester John to improve on what Antonio Pinto brings and make an excuse for his omitting to bring a letter from Your Highness. I shall also write those letters that seems necessary to the bishop and to Gaspar de Sousa and to other Portuguese. I shall send copies of His Holiness’s briefs and of other letters to Your Highness as soon as we have finished clarifying everything. Antonio Pinto will make the journey with the expenses that His Holiness gives him. The latter wants him to return here with the people he is bringing, and he promises to give him a reward for doing so. God willing, the said Antonio Pinto will leave in six or seven days. He will follow the route via Messina so as to hand over the Moors bought through João de Lomelino to ransom the Christians of Cairo. When he is offered the good transportation, I have already notice of, he will be able to go to Alexandria accompanied by the said Moors. When they are delivered to the Pasha and the Christians made ready to come according to my instructions, he can attend to his journey from Abyssinia.
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