_ 23 _ Hope with rough wind, I was unable to speak with her, the ship must be at Sam Torré because on the following day the pilots made for her doubling the Cape; this ship does not bring any pepper, but these two that remain here bring seven thousand seven hundred odd quintals of it. The ship “Cedro” in which comes as Captain Dom Vazio de Tayde must have departed on the second or third of February and she also brings no pepper, but coir, black wood (palonegre) mast heads and other things; the ship “Capitayna” and the ship “Esperança” did not leave Cochim until after the fifteenth of February: in the Esperança comes as Captain, Dom Francisco Mascarenhas, and it appears she does not bring more than six or seven thousand quintals of pepper, and this if resort will be had of what the Kings of Malvar had promised the Viceroy, which was much more than what I stated above, and the Ship “Tygre” the Viceroy had arranged should come without cargo. What things happened during the time I was in India, were, in Damão the victory obtained by Garcia Rodriques de Tavora against an Abyssinian Captain, whom he himself slew and likewise did they kill a great portion of those he had brought with him; he had come in order to live on the lands of Damão, and was in revolt, and Cambaya is at peace.
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