_ 112 _ to give, that is why he indicated that ...... not…………. to agree. This being the situation at that time………Jorge de Brito arrived in the aforementioned port of Ormuz with several ships from Lopo Soares fleet, which had gone to winter in Mozambique ........ without authority to accompany him. During this period, Sir, the aforementioned Antonio Homem, who had sailed along the coast of Muscat, also arrived. The said merchants complained about him, so much so that…………..Pero de Albuquerque told me that he would cancel an inquiry about Jorge de Brito and those who followed him. I told him. Sir, that he would also have to cancel the one about Antonio Homem. He answered that he would cancel the inquiry about the others, but he would not consider the latter. We both quarreled about this matter, but when I saw what he was bent on doing, I let him know that, since your instructions were not going to be carried out. I was washing my hands of all inquiries, whoever they were concerned. He could do whatever he wished, but I did not want Your Highness or your governor to blame me because he did not cancel all the said inquiries, and it could be that he declined to do so because the aforementioned Antonio Homem was a relative of the captain.
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