_ 585 _ Miguel de Cambaia, whom you certainly know, has also arrived. I beg you as a friend to send a good astrolabe and various correspondence which is being printed there about [events in (?)] Lisbon, and send me news from Italy, Hungary, Bohemia and Poland, etc. and perhaps to put me in touch with someone erudite who knows about astronomy and cosmography, seeing that I have lost my good Dr Hieronymus. I also want to send you the coast of India as far as Malacca and the [... (?)] with the islands, for up to the present all the pilots are in the King’s employ and have things to do, and later will be, I am informed. If there is a little book called “Petrus de Cliaco on Cosmography”, send it to me. May God the Omnipotent long preserve you in good health. Give my greetings to the good officers and gentlemen there who know me. Your godson is vigorous and in good health, and his mother too, thanks be to God. Your friend and servant, at your orders. Valentim Femandes I cordially request you to tell me how it is known that Ptolemy has been corrected and entirely reprinted. Ask an erudite astronomer what all this is about and write to me.
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