_ 399 _ Item: That he had to send Goncalo Vaz with two sambucos laden with lime to Sofala; and he had to order him to return via the islands of Alcomor because, in this way, it seemed to him very much in your interests. Item: He requests a cross, a monstrance and tribolo(A) [10] for the church and he maintains that he has no more than one vestment and one chalice. Item: That those that he has there with him do not have arms according to the rules, because of this, he is in doubt about paying his soldiers; he wants to know what he will do about this matter; and that they argue that they were told they would obtain arms, though he did not bring them, because they would be given them there.(B) And that something was paid so that the people would not lose courage and would serve more willingly; he asks Your Highness to consider this a suitable idea.(C) Item: From one year after his arrival there up to the completion of this letter, 14 men from the fortress and 10 from the naus died. (A) In the margin: that is, ornaments. (B) In the margin: they earn them. (C) In the margin: yes.
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