_ 377 _ we can see that the King of Ormuz, in being a vassal of the King Dom Manuel, was not subjected to oppression, but received assistance. If the corruption of those governors of his had continued, if Afonse d' Albuquerque had delayed in delivering the King from it nothing would have remained of the house of Gordunsha, first founder of the Kingdom of Ormuz. From what we saw of one of the ledgers recording the revenues and expenditure of this kingdom; the revenues arose in two ways; one a tax on the goods entering and leaving the city of Ormuz the other form of revenue was from the crops, tributes and taxes on the lands of the kingdom; as well as from part of Arabia and Persia and from certain islands in the seas within the entrance to the Straits. The revenues on entry to the city were levied by the customs, regularly at that time amounting to a hundred xerafins, equivalent to thirty contos in our currency. Other taxes arising in the city amounted to forty-one thousand three hundred xerafins. The revenues arising in Arabia and Persia are from boroughs and townships in the seaports, and a few inland. The principals are like our almoxarifedo (receivers of revenve collecting districts) who have authority over all the others in their district, (as we related of the revenue collecting districts of Goa). The
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