_ 216 _ no harm or loss, and that no reprisal or seizure be made against that of the factor through your failing to pay dues. Item: I advise and order you that you are not to send ashore a single man and let no one off the ship save the factor and his scrivener and a purchaser to buy provisions for the ship. You are always to send your bailiff in the boat to prevent men from going ashore from the boat because as you know, trading ports are full of foreigners who always cause us as much trouble and harm as they can, and this sometimes results from the disorderly behaviour of our own ignorant men. For your own business you may send one of your own men to trade with the factor. Item: You are advised that you are not to trade in things prohibited by His Highness because you do not have anything to the contrary written in the warrants and grants made to you by His Highness. These are: spices and drugs, lac, dyes, silk and tin, which I recently saw in his instructions. As for pepper and all other spices, except cloves and cinnamon, you may sell and trade up to the sixty quintals that is in His Highness’s permit to you on each voyage you make. You may bring back in your cabin sixty quintals of any goods that may be of profit to you, as you have in your warrant from the said Lord. You may not load them in the body of the ship but only in the part of the cabin which His Highness has granted you.
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