_ 177 _ Then you will send him word that you think he does not wish to speak to you and to hear what we have to offer, as we expected, and so you are not permitted to disembark without such sureties. But in order to trade in goods and to negotiate about them, and to take to him what we are sending by you, you will ask him to send three or four merchants and persons for this purpose and you will send the same number for this purpose, who will discuss with him on your behalf.... You will send Aires Correia and two of his clerks with him, one for incomings and the other for outgoings. You will send him what we are sending him, and they will discuss with him trade and arrangements about the merchandise and taking on cargo in the same way as we indicate above that you were to say if you met him. They will tell him that it seems a great error and not in his own interests to give the sureties that you have asked for in order to disembark, because if you were to meet him you would tell him things of great interest to him. You will organize a house there for us where the clergy and friars can stay whom we are sending to instruct him in religion and that it must be believed for salvation. Merchandise will also be left, and more will come continually, from which he will receive much profit and
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