_ 68 _ overland this would be too much. The latter will be used by us both here; and this letter is for everyone. If it seems appropriate to Your Reverence, please show it to all the brothers. I well know that by so doing I am not acquitting my obligations to them, but it will satisfy their wish and mine that I should write to them, and as to the other obligations I have to them I shall say a mass for them each month. I greatly commend myself to Your Reverence by sacrifices and devout prayers. 9. Please commend me to Father Gonçalo Alvares if he is not coming here this year(A); please commend me to Manoel Àlvares, to Father Rijo(B), Pero Gomes, Fonseca(C), Manoel Rodrigues, Marcos Jorge, Miguel Gomes, Father Varea Gaspar Plano, Tolosa(D), João Freire, Pero da Silva, Francisco Martinez, Manoel Corrêa, Gaspar Gonçalves, Nicolao Gracida, Jacomé Barbosa, Luís de Moraes, D.Pedro Utrique(E), António Pacheco, Naus(F), Gerónimo Dias, (A) He first visited India in 1568. (B) Jorge Rijo (DI III 208). (C) Pero da Fonseca (cf DI IV 129). (D) Francisco Varea (DI IV 128). (E) In 1563 two scholars of this find name completed their studies at the college at Coimbra, one in the second class, then the first, the other in the ninth (Lus. 43 I 187v 189v 192v). Their surnames are not given. (F) Cosmos das Naus.
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