_ 95 _ other parts. I do not wish to say more about this to Your Highness because I have not been permitted to. The Captain-in-Chief gave me permission to go on condition that I did not cause offence on land, and I undertook to bring him enough men for the fortress without giving offence to anyone, and whoever complained about me I should pay a cruzado. I did this, Sir, entirely to serve Your Highness and for the reward that I hope to receive for this, and this is the reason that until now holds me captive. He ordered that I should be given a horse, and from it I supervised the workmen and the work they were doing and every day I had four hundred workmen, and twenty stone-cutters come, and no Portuguese dared go where I went. Item: A junk belonging to the King of Malacca and the Bandara, which was coming from Coromandel laden with very fine kinds of cloth, was captured. No one then in Malacca knew how much they were worth, and if they knew they were not telling, but I discovered their value. When Rui de Araujo was examining the cloth I asked him on behalf of Your Highness and the Captain-in-Chief not to sell it, saying that I would get twice what he would sell it for, and I told the Captain-in-Chief that I knew all about everything that came from that country, the price of the
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