_ 392 _ of Alcoucor: corn, rice, cows, goats, chickens, and stones, which are very valuable, but they are in short supply. Item: The hood that he made for the Moor, and the axe and chopping block to behead him the Moor disclosed to him that the sambuco which the King of Kilwa had claimed was from there, belonged to the King of Mombasa, from whom he had taken 500 sacks of maize. Item: That the fortress has been built, closed in and prepared, with two towers rebuilt and a bulwark in front of the gate; with the whole of the inside of the fortress lined with another wall and filled in with mortar; and a lot of artillery. Item: That the King never wanted to give him or order the sale of lime; and now the fort has protection, he has given the order to do so. Item: That Sidi Mohammed Mucanda is a great servant of Your Highness, and this king ordered him to make lime. Item: That as soon as the Viceroy left, the king that he crowned so as to make himself feared, ordered two Moors to be killed without trial, and they were arrested and thrown into the sea.
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