_ 156 _ brings in five thousand cruzados a year. If this office were held by Portuguese, they would derive far more money from it because they trade and deal in merchandise, which the Moors would not dare to do. In the customshouse there are four clerks, one Portuguese and the other three Moors. It is laid down in the Instructions that when any of the Moors who serve as clerks should die another must not be appointed to replace him, so that there will eventually be no Moorish clerks. The Portuguese clerk has six leques salary, which in our money is worth eighty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two reis. Kwaja Landim, one of the clerks, has five leques salary, which is equal to seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty reis. Kwaja Safradim, another Moorish clerk, has four leques salary, which is fifty-five thousand eight hundred and fourteen reis. Kwaja Mamede, the other Moorish clerk, has two leques a year, which is twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and seven reis. In three years the office of Portuguese clerk brings between two and three thousand cruzados net. So far none of the Moorish clerks has died, but as soon as they do they will be replaced by Portuguese, whose salary will be the same as that of the Moor whom he succeeds.
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