_ 93 _ which is the time of the monsoon, by which he could come here before the Turks should have attained a greater footing among the Gizares, that Baçorá would be taken and the galleys at least burnt, and if this be not done so, this land will be lost altogether, and the fortress be put to great oppresion because the later it be relieved, the more powerful they will be found. All which I state to Your Highness passes in this land is owing to its being robbed and wrecked, as in all else because it did not suffice the free port which the Turks made in it, by the Portuguese, for after quitting the fortress they robbed it far more cruelly than the enemies had done, which truly was the thing I most felt, and which gave me the greatest pain of all I witnessed an account of the discredit of he who did it, and he who consented to its being done, for they were men who came after the Rumes had left, to their houses where they had a hundred behares of rice and found Lascarins selling it without acknowledging them to be its owners, and to complain of this was of no avail. Henceforth it only seems in reason that the Captain coming to this fortress should come to merit other things by which to deserve favour of Your Highness, and not come to render themselves wealthy in this case as they all do,
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