_ 107 _ security for all time. May it please Our Lord to give Your Highness increase of days in a grand estate as we all desire, and let Your Highness be minded to do me the favour of one of these fortresses for I so well deserve it, and remember how many wounds I have received in these parts in your service, and of all these fortresses the greater part of them were made with stones carried by these shoulders, and I feel that I am not less worthy than others to whom Your Highness orders them to be given to, both on account of their services as for their nobility, and this Your Highness knows better than I can tell you, and this I do for no other reason than for a good example, because even to the blacks of this land it is a subject of astonishment to see me go in this fashion. I will kiss Your hands to remember me and of my services, and in so doing Your Highness will perform a service to God, and favour me. From Cochin on the twenty-second of December 1518. I kiss the hands of Your Highness Dom João de Lima. On the Superscription to the King our Lord.
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