_ 47 _ These things were thus, Sir, and may God help me, and there were many worse ones: Goa and Ormuz and everything may be lost to Christianity, perhaps, without any man being blamed, but that will never come to pass without great evil and deception. For this kind of thing one can well say ‘by deliberate fraud’. Summary of remainder [i,e, to p. 776] Because the good governance of the land has to imitate that in heaven, where there is perpetual peace and with this governance Our Lord specially entrusts us, we know that this peace preserves the world and war destroys it. Therefore, Sir, and especially for the good of your service and improvement of your estate here, I say that in my opinion it is necessary to have peace with Calicut. If you do not have it there will always be Calicut to oppose us and I do not know when you may be able to destroy them. Nor would there be any profit, nor can the other ports be safe when they know that so much damage has been done there, in Malacca and all the other places. I say, Sir, that for trade peace is necessary with the whole world, and further that this Afonso de Albuquerque be sent out of India and that the world be free from the chicanery, vanity and cowardice which one could not
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