_ 62 _ and rendered service thereby, Jeronimo Ruiz can give Your Highness a more detailed account of the other affairs of Ormuz because he is going in the naos, and I have done it during the past years. Reiz Roconodim, the former port governor who is prisoner in Goa, has not yet been tried. The best thing to do is to bring him to Longa so that he will not return to Ormuz because he will be very harmful there. And, so that Your Highness may know how lax things are here, I am writing this letter. When Jorje Cabral was governor, the captains of Bassein and Chaul quarreled over who was to buy the beads needed for the trade of Sofala and Mozambique, wherefor they sent many Portugals seven or eight leagues into the interior, armed, and with their relatives as captains of the men, and they were all but ready to do battle to see who was to take with them to the fortress the merchants who bought the said beads. Finally, those of Chaul were more judicious and allowed those of Bassein to take them, which beads they sent there as their own and to the rivers of that coast or wheresoever they wanted, and they carry out this trade publicly though it is forbidden by Your Highness, and when the factor needs a few beads to send to Mozambique they sell them to him at their own price because they have them all in their hands, and there is none who can stop this.
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