_ 110 _ to transact business with the gentiles, later selling the pepper to our factory and making an enormous profit; out of this profit they would then pay the Indians. Thanks to this trick the Viceroy acquired a lot of pepper and made life difficult for the Arabs. Chapter: 84 As I’ve already described, Tristan da Cunha left Cannanore and route to Portugal on the 7th of December (see end of Chapter 65), he arrived in Mozambique on the 9th of January 1508 with the three ships of his fleet, and here found the four commanders-in-chief spending the winter, Lionel Coutinho’s ship, which was with Tristan da Cunha, was not in good condition and he left it in Mozambique with a message for Henrique Nunes de Leao asking him to transfer all the merchandise to his own ship and take it to Portugal. Tristan da Cunha headed for home on the 17th of January, and on the way discovered Ascension Island. He then arrived in Portugal, after his departure, Job Queimado arrived in Mozambique, bringing his own ship as well as the “St. Anthony”. They left for Portugal on the 11th of February, together with Henrique Nunes de Leao. However, Job Queimado had to run his ship aground in Mozambique and once more departed, on the 9th of March. Before this, Jorge de Melo Pereira, Diogo de Melo, and Martim Coelho, who were all
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