_ 383 _ Item: The jewels, in surety of which Goncalo Gil lant your property to a Moor, are in his possession; these jewels should remain in the hands of Lourenco Moreno.(A) Item: The details of the exceptional entries that he recorded because it seemed to him to be in your interests. Item: The discovery that Dom Lourenco made that Ceylon has a promontory like that of Cannanore on which to build a fortress, plenty of water and a fine port. He wants to build a fortress there and not in Quilon; Ceylon is on the same route as Malacca, Pegu, Sumatra and Coromandel; from there to Ceylon it is 70 leagues, copper here in Ceylon is 16 cruzados a quintal.(B) Item: How Dom Lourenco [de Almeida] went to Ormuz. Item: The + (sic) of Christ and the royal arms and device remain in Ceylon on a padrao. Item: He took the captaincy of the caravel away from Lopo Charneca because he punched the scrivener. [3v] Item: That he left for Ceylon at the end of September and he took the nau "Santo Espirito" to load it with cinnamon; he hoped to build the fortress in one month. (A) In the margin up to 600 cruzados. (B) In the margin letter of thanks.
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