_ 117 _ aforementioned customs house very well.......... as I have already said, and if they had these two........ better and not making you......... they could very quickly lose what would be service of God and Your Highness. Item: Sir, I leave this matter and remark that if..…….. Your Highness gives orders to interfere in the affairs…….... because you wish to have the revenue of the kingdom seized ........... so be it, but not now, since it so happens that I have been serving Your Highness for close on seven years in this area and because I am convinced that I have taken good care of matters related to your service, even if, Sir, I may speak when I am not invited, I wish, nevertheless, to serve you in what has been mentioned, and want to tell the truth about what is going on. Item: I tell you, Sir, that if Your Highness wishes to intervene in Ormuz and seize all its revenues, you can do so but, Sir, it should not be at a stroke or all at once but, Sir, little by little. This should be done with the least possible fuss, even though, perhaps, Your Highness decides to build a fortress in each of those kingdoms, located inside the Straits above Ormuz, such as, Bahrain, El Ketiff, Basra, etc. and up the river (Eu)phrates, where João de Meira went to investigate what sailed there, because he saw that up
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