_ 188 _ some original letters from the Albuquerque’s expedition (1503). As the documents of the voyage of Lopo Soares have not yet been published, we have put together sixteen pieces of archive material found in the Torre de Tombo(A). Among them figure the inventory of the cargo on the return voyage, which lists the earliest cargo of spices that (A) Inventory of spices, the property of the King, brought by Lopo Soares from India, s.d., TdT, CM 3-337 and inventory of spices belonging to various persons working in the India carracks, s.d., CM 3-367. Even though it is marked by notices and from different sides, these two relações are only the two parts of one and the same document, to which, in order to make things easier, we shall give the artificial title of “Inventory of 1505”. (b) Dom Manuel to the King of Cochin, s.l.n.d. [1504] TdT, CVR 59. (c) Mandado [written orders], Cannanore, 5. IX. 1504, TdT, CC, II-9-2. (d) Mandado, Cannanore, 5. IX. 1504, TdT, CC, II-9-1. (e) Mandado, Cannanore, 7. IX. 1504, TdT, CC, II-9-3 and 4. (f) Mandado, Cannanore, 13. IX. 1504, TdT, CC, II-9-11. (g) Bills of Lading, Cannanore, 4.I.1505, TdT, CC, II-9-32 and 33. (h) Mandado, Cannanore, 4.I.1505, TdT, CC, II-9-35. (i) Mandado, Cannanore, 5.I.1505, TdT, CC, II-9-36. (j) Bills of Lading, Cannanore, 5.I.1505, TdT, CC, II-9-34 and 37. (k) Mandado, Cannanore, 5.I.1505, TdT, CC, II-9-38. (l) Bills of Lading, Cannanore, 6.I.1505, TdT, CC, II-9-40. (m) Dom Manuel to the Provincial Vicar of the Order of St. Dominic, from \lisbon, 10.VII.1505, TdT, CC, I-5-31. All these pieces are published hereafter on pp. 101 and 136 [these pages are not included in this translation].
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