_ 167 _ This office receives no salary from the royal treasury, and it is usually filled by long-serving noblemen for a period of three years, and sometimes five or six years, and in three years it brings in seven or eight thousand cruzados. The coast of Malindi used to be under the jurisdiction of the captains of Sofala, from which it was separated in the time of the Count of Redondo, a former Viceroy of India.
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