_ 102 _ From Malaca there came news that at the arrival of Don Aleixo it was at war with the King who had been King of her, and was with his men a league distant, and that he ran the city daily, and not only was our Fortress in this Strait, but within among the Portuguese there were differences, and parties, between Antonio Pacheco and Nino Vaz Pereira, as to who would be Captain and it pleased our Lord that at this time Dom Aleixo should arrive and he pacified everything. Both as to the Moors as well as to the Christians and thus did Affonso Lopes da Costa remain as Captain and after the arrival of Dom Aleixo, Nino Vaz died, of Fernan Peres there was also these news, that he had arrived to China, where he was very well received and that he had sold all the merchandize very well, and that he had done the things which Your Highness had ordered him with great prudence, they write daily for him here, would to God that he would bring him as Your Highness desires, and we also wish, because the wealth of China is not credited Senhor, and this Your Highness will already know by Rafaell Perestrello. Senhor, Dom João was in Bengalla this last winter, and wintered there, and was always at war up to the last, and I know not (sic) that he had made any contract of peace, it is
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