_ 94 _ which is so greatly against the service of Your Highness, for now there is not even a hair to be taken to this land for all things are despoiled. May Your Highness forgive me if I have extended myself to speak so much, for I have done so rather for what it concerned Your Highness than for the pain of its having been done in my country, and in this I took courage that by my law that is in the small portion that falls to me of the government of this land I always desired to manifest the great acknowledgement I have ever felt for the favour done me by Your Highness in giving it to me to do, besides other favours Your Highness has shown me which I shall never be able to fulfil, but this is so far away that many things we done in this land, to this end, very much against the service of God and that of Your Highness. Last year, I wrote to Your Highness how Amtão de Noronha had taken the fortress of Catifa, and after taking it, and the Turks coming from there who were in Lacaa, they returned to Catifa, and on this being made known to my cousin, Rex Morado, the Guazil of Barem, he acted so with the Arabians that they rose up against the Turks, and this was a slight thing to effect with them on account of the great evil they with them and the great hurt they receive from them.
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