_ 41 _ It is not through his knowledge that Afonso de Albuquerque succeeds in getting the results he habitually does. He wasted a great amount of your Treasury and placed your splendid armada in situations from which it only escaped by the grace of God and, we are of the opinion, your devotion and by courtesy of the Moors. He unloaded, unnecessarily, more than 100,000 cruzados worth of your goods from the naus, which were being carried for the defence of these fortresses and the armada, end left them in Goa without knowing what fate awaited them. Completely unconcerned, he left them in a strong castle, together with one of your large fleets, and he lost as a rough estimate more than 300,000 cruzados, and this did not include what was captured and is said to have been worth more than a million in gold. Here and in Calicut he killed some 500 men and if the Moors in these places Ormuz, Calicut and Goa had so wished, not a man would escape except himself as he had taken prior precautions. And there are many other things that Your Highness will learn about him from the good noblemen, captains and other persons who go there [back to Portugal], such as how he failed to supply provisions for three months: never paid your troops: bribed 10 or 12 cruzados to have them killed,
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