_ 61 _ The viceroy is sending the relevant papers to Your Highness but, returning to the captain of Ormuz, he is so arbitrary that he not only does as he likes but has a man as factor in Reixel who, under the guise of obtaining information from Bassora, sends there all the goods that go here from India to Ormuz and this is his only trade, which is forbidden by all the authorities under heavy penalties and, whilst the people of Bassora were ready to stop it at the time. I was in Ormuz because I made these goods forbidden and they were left without means to live, as soon as I came away so many goods went there by this route that the port again became renowned and more people began to come but, if any man mentions any of these things to Dom Alvaro telling him to look at what he is doing, he answers that the same was done by the last captains who took away one hundred and forty thousand pardaos, one being a Lyma and the other after him a Noronha, a reason why he should take away much more and that, if nothing was done to him for taking it, much less will be done to him, and such is the reasoning by which they live. Reiz Nordim, who is now acting as port governor because his father has become very old, is said to have done well till now. I do not know how long it will last. Reiz Xarafo went to Catyfa with Dom Antão taking many people
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