_ 521 _ my instructions, through the agency of João de Lomelino, and of accompanying them as far as Cairo. There, he was to hand them over to the Pasha and arrange the return of the Portuguese captives, according to the instructions that I gave him for that purpose. God willing, these will return, to Venice, and there I shall leave instructions in the hands of Tomas de Cornossa as to what has to be done. When the business of the captives has been included, Antonio Pinto will leave Cairo and take the route that I have already mentioned to Your Highness. May Our Lord deign to guide him and fulfil the wishes of the Pope. A copy of the brief that His Holiness wrote to Prester John will accompany this letter, as well as that of bishop Dom Andre. I am also sending a copy of the letters that I wrote to the said Prester and the bishop, and the instructions that I gave to the messenger about everything he was to do and say. Your Highness should instruct that all these papers be read, so as to have clearer idea of the intention and aim of His Holiness and thus the way in which the matter was dealt with. In my letter I addressed Prester John as a sovereign, so as not to show him less courtesy than did the Pope, and I
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