_ 200 _ can also ensure that great praises are offered to Our Lord and also for our much effort in great undertakings and many and very great expenses we have had and are having in the seaborne conquest of India and those Eastern parts. The efforts of those who serve us faithfully have already given and are giving a profit of a hundred for one and, as in such a short time they have given one hundredfold, we hope in Our Lord that in accordance with his customary mercy and the greatness and largesse of his favours of which we and our kingdoms are well able to bear witness, the profit to be taken will very soon be a thousandfold, and likewise that Our Lord will always assist with His divine clemency the work and hardships undergone in His service. Item: the said Tristão da Cunha, our commander, took a city of the Moors called [Oge], which is near the city of Malindi on the Red Sea. This was a large and noble city with fine buildings, and there was a king there. It was entered by force of arms, and the king was killed, and the whole of it was burnt and many Moorish souls died. We are assured that much wealth was burnt because, on account of the rough seas on that coast, the carracks could not come Inshore, and our commander thought it best to set the whole on fire.
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