_ 181 _ Item: He also used eight mãos of butter six jars of vinegar six quintals of biscuit half a candil of wheat . Up to our arrival at this port of Ormuz the purser also issued ten mãos of gorgelym oil which the Captain ordered to be at his expense because his servant Cosme Nunes had broken the jars containing the King’s oil. 8 mãos 6 jars 6 quintals 1/2 candins of wheat 10 mãos. f25v Item: On 3 August the purser handed out eight pieces of gunny which were used for repairs to the ship’s wales 8 pieces of gunny. Item: On 8 September 1520 we began to use the forty candins of rice we were given as provisions for the voyage from Ormuz to Goa, which were given us by Inácio de Bulhões, factor of Ormuz. On this day we gave this rice to one hundred persons who had been taken on to serve in the ship, i.e. giving one pari to each, in accordance with our standing orders by which there are ten paris to one Goa mão. This comes to ten mãos, and four paris extra which were given to the pilot of the ship and three other men who are artificers who give orders to the men. This amount of rice is used is distributed every day in the presence of myself Cristóvão Afonso, clerk of the ship, and handed out by a servant of Paris Corvinel, Captain and factor of the ship.
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