_ 400 _ Item: The duties he performs and the hard life he endures in your service. Item: Pedre de Figueiredo, scrivener of the factory and scrivener of the victualler, died; he appointed the noblemen, Heitor de Melo. Item: He made the bailiff, Pedro Barbosa from Entre Douro e Minho, captain of the brigantine; he therefore asks that Your Highness may approve because they are capable men. Item: He says he has spacious quarters and that they are [10v] very secure; that he wants to surround the whole of the fortress with a rampart and place three or four water tanks that are there inside with him. Item: That the factory of this fortress received over 4,000 meticals of gold from Your Highness(A), and 160 quintals of ivory, all of which the brigantine removed. And besides this, he sent cloth and other items that Vasco Goncalves ordered him to ask for. Item: That it is possible to obtain a great quantity of ivory from Sofala as far as Kilwa, which is valued at 15 meticals of gold a quintal; that at times, in Cambay, it is (A) In the margin: seen
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