_ 200 _ for the Lascarim's provisions and salaries, since these costs had been met by the pepper he had taken to the strait. How did he explain it? The factor, who saw he had been caught, gave no answer, and the governor did not pursue the point, because he had instructions from the king not to interfere too much in the factors' affairs; these instructions had been issued at the request of this same factor and Antonio Real, who had written to the king from India, because they were afraid the governor might frustrate their dealings since he had the king's interests very much at heart. When it had been decided that he was to spend the winter in Goa he sent a relation of his whose name was Jorge de Albuquerque to Malacca where he was to serve. As captain of the fortress for several reasons, which he felt would be in the king's interests he recalled Rui de Brito: the present captain of Malacca, to India. First, he had offered the position to Pero de Mascarenhas, but as the latter had declined it, he had given it to Jorge de Albuquerque. He told him what he was to do in Malacca, and gave him some men whom he was to take in his ship. After having given him everything he needed he left Cochin, and on the way visited the fortress at Calicut, which was at quite an advanced stage.
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