_ 18 _ This will be duly credited to your account through the bookkeeping entry of the said criveners. Done in Ormuz on 8th January, 1516. You will also give him a length of striped silk. On the said day, month and year. (Signed) Pero de Albuquerque. Item: Vasco Fernandes Courtinho served here as fortress Governor, and Manuel da Costa as factor. They wanted to go to India, and Dom Aleixo made Ruy Galvao and Luis Ferreira, fortress Governor and factor respectively………. for the selfsame fortress…. They showed more greed than profit, in the pursuance of your interests. I keep the rest for when Your Highness comes. They are people to whom you owe favours, but not in Ormuz, because they are completely immoral. All around the fortress, the towers are at the same height as the wall. On the city side they have their parapet and battlements but on the seaward side they not yet finished. Only a small stretch of old wall has yet to be put up, which allowed the reservoirs to be finished first. The wall will be built later, since it is not all that weak or low. Another house has yet to be built in this tower, encircled by a walkway, with its portico and battlements which makes it very beautiful.
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