_ 361 _ rights whatsoever. This was also the case of the Kings of Larack, Shiraz and Makren, and of the Sheikhs of Basra, of Gwaldel and of Raxel and of ourselves, the Portuguese, after we established the fortress there. Chapter: VIII How Afonso de Albuquerque sent Dom Garcia de Noronha to bring a cargo of spices to this Kingdom; and how, after Dom Garcia de Noronha had left Ormuz, Afonso de Albuquerque fell ill, which made it advisable for him to leave for India; and of the events on the way to Goa, where he died. Afonso de Albuquerque concluded that, the time had come to place the orders for the cargo of spices destined for this Kingdom (Portugal). His nephew, Dom Garcia de Noronha wanted to come that year, and so Afonso de Albuquerque placed him in command of the fleet and sent him to Cochin to dispatch the spices, so that everything should be ready when the ships arrived from Portugal. Afonso de Albuquerque gave him all the authority he possibly could to carry out the dispatch of the spices in the best manner. On the day that Dom Garcia left, at the behest of the King of Ormuz, Afonso de Albuquerque ordered him to place in his ship, the “Belem”, all the King’s blind relatives
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