_ 215 _ intact and under guard as indicated in a previous paragraph for me to approve. While you are coasting, you are not to carry out any capture or reprisal or offensive action in sight of the land and ports of India. When you are at anchor in any port, you are not to set sail to attack anyone even if you know for certain that they belong to our enemies, so as not to give offence in the ports in which the factor you are carrying has to trade his goods. Item: You are not to call in at any port save those which have been decided by the official of the Cochin factory and which the factor of merchandise of the ship in question has in his commission. In those ports where the factor trades, you may make use of the favour which the King, our Lord, has granted you to buy and sell goods at the prices fixed by the factor of the ship for the land and port where those you carry are traded. You will pay dues on your own goods to the kings of the territories and governors of the ports, as I have agreed with them; His Highness’s merchandise is free and exempt from dues, and the Portuguese who trade pay according to the custom of the country. You will bring an account of how you pay the dues for me to see. Do this in such a way as to ensure that the merchandise of the King, our Lord, receives
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