_ 43 _ anything to anyone, with two or three sides, and went to the King of Cochin and to the merchant to ask them to look for this slave. I do not believe that Your Highness ordered him to do such things in his instructions. The other arm of justice that Afonso de Albuquerque left, who sets everything aright here, is one Fernando Aves, who was a servant of Afonso Pereira, the Governor of Santarim, and who used to have charge of collecting taxes from the butchers of Santarim. He was arrested for stealing from the hospital there, and I believe he came here from prison. Here Francisco Pereira gave him charge of a few pigs and ducks of his, and other matters one should not mention to Your Highness, on account of their shamefulness. Afonso da Albuquerque appointed him judge here and for my pains he made me his clerk for a time, as I wrote last year to Your Highness, though afterward I had the chance to get away from that. Then Afonso de Albuquerque gave him charge of this hospital, he having behaved so well at the other one in Santarim, and of legacies to the church and other church matters. It is shameful to tell you, Sir, because he is your
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