_ 197 _ in India. With this programme they will not dare to come here. Another point about Calicut: the Samorim, who was such a traitor towards you is dead, poisoned by the Nambiaderi, who has succeeded him. Their country wants peace with Your Highness. In return for your support, treaties and merchandise, they are willing to give you whatever they have in their country. If I arrange peace with the Nambiaderi, I should like to know if you wish the King of Cochin to continue with his annual tributes. You ordered me to recommend universal peace throughout the land of Malabar and I followed your command. If, at times, things do not turn out as you had hoped, Your Highness must put this down to a lapse of memory on my part. Worse damage than this has been done to you by those who write from India because they do not allow you to have a proper say in its affairs and they have done you a great deal of harm. From Cannanore, on 4th day of December 1513. (In Albuquerque’s handwriting) Administrator and servant of Your Highness Afonso de Albuquerque.
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