_ 120 _ clerk under your authority and these, for the moment, serve with the Moorish officials, who are there now, by virtue of the King of Ormuz, let them be the kind of people that, being ............ in your service, know how to gain the respect of the merchants by quickly clearing the goods and by not approving of new practices or any other customs duties except those that were always paid, so that ........ . to be clearly aware that this favours the Christian officials more than the Moors. So, Sir, it is true that the officers who gain prestige and those who .......... would say what can be done very well............ people such as those who well know and like it........... and I, Sir, who served in this way, knew very well….....it would be like this. Shortly after I stayed here for the first time and was, Sir, like many who are here...........the fact is that when there was a dispute between a Christian and a Moor, if the Mor was the defendant, the Christian had to comply with Moorish law and appear before Rais Norodim. It the defendant was a Christian, the Moor appeared before your court, but he did not believe that justice would be done or that the culprit would be punished. When they began to see that this was done, they were
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