_ 63 _ The captain of Bassein has become so proud with the powers Your Highness sent him that he makes grants in his own name, as the viceroy saw from two orders of his. He appointed a clerk of the Treasury to whom he gave a salary of one hundred and fifty thousand reais without authority from the viceroy and forthwith ordered that he be paid one year in advance. He pays the wages he chooses making it worse by saying that they were jewels and not amount to ninety thousand pardaos, and I do not mention the exact amount because some of the things have still to be sold and I do not know how much they will fetch because there are many articles of precious stones, and the fact that a boy little more than a child was made a Christian and proclaimed by force a son of the dead King. And since all those who went there will write to Your Highness of the affair, there is no need for me to do it, and Your Highness will learn from them whether I served you well or badly in this regard. One thing only will I say which is that none can take the thought from my head that there is a treasure there, perhaps not great, and that some was hidden.
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