_ 209 _ As this is such a new and unusual situation, as you can see, I am pleased. Praise be to Our Lord that kings from so far away place at our disposal their own lands and separate them from their main body. [...](A) I shall give you further news. Item: Tristão da Cunha left India with all the fleet well-loaded. Not all the fleet arrived in India, and only the three carracks which arrived with him are loaded with twenty-two to twenty-three quintals of spices, drugs and other royal merchandise, pearls and precious stones and others from other places. Another fleet, if there is one to carry it, will be able to carry as much, for, blessed be Our Lord, almost nothing is getting through to Mecca in the Moors’ carracks; and we hope that, with the help of Our Lord and the capture of the island of Socotra and our ports, which we have commanded, in future nothing will get through. Item: Before Tristão da Cunha left India news arrived through the Moors that Ormuz had yielded to Afonso de Albuquerque and had become our tributary, and so we have another important city in those parts. This news should be taken as true because it comes through adversaries and is (A) Blank space in the manuscript.
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