_ 430 _ through here a man from Baçora of Babylonia who goes on Constantinople to demand for more men to be given him, and one brought me letters of my companion, who says he is in a desperate state awaiting my son Joce Marques, who was at Baçora having come there from Ormuz, and could not come on to Babylonia on account of the road being closed and no Castles going along the river. Due to these wars, as the bearer of this letter to Myca Thomaz may give an account of who is a Venetian called Myca Assigante and who has been all over India, and came now when he saw the Portuguese who was called Pedro Lopes, who became a Mor in Babylonia and who has already left this, they say he left to proceed to Venice, should he go over there. Let Your Highness order him to be paid as he deserves for being a bad man, who placed us here at the risk of death both myself and the others, declaring he was a spy of the Portuguese and that he conducted my son from Ormuz the former time when he went there, and they also say he went Constantinople to demand of the King of give him galleons and he will proceed to take Barem, which I am certain he promised the Baxa of Babylonia when he turned Moor, saying that he would give orders as soon as Barem would be taken, and for this they gave him half a cruzado
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