_ 123 _ now. Since the situation is that I am no longer allowed to leave, I am returning once more to Ormuz to serve in the same capacity as judge as I have already done for three years. I kiss Your Highness hands, because by regarding and being such, I know how to do it better than anyone else, and that in having to appoint a judge to the customs house of Ormuz, you should wish to do me this favour, so that with this ...........may serve it and taking me from here as a pretext, then I shall kiss his hands, because if the lawyer Pero Gomes Teixeira, a judge who is in India at the moment, stays here.............the post of judge with that of comptroller.......... he has, and supplying Your Highness……...... and having me as an official…………. moreover, to send me permission to ........ giving the gift of a permit so as to be able slaves and to do me a favour in this way…………captains .......... in payment for my service ........... Sir, I shall receive a signed payment, not...... may Our Lord grant Your Highness a long life and increase your estate, and in reply to this, the bearer…………..Your Highness, if you should wish me ............ in order to do me a favour. Sir, as for these things that are being said here, I reply ........ to find out if, by chance, I was serving in this way. But if the truth were known, and Your Highness decided to build in Ormuz, I would answer each one precisely and in
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