_ 20 _ Highness or to your Captain General, who was living in India. I implored him not to take such a route because the sea and its conquest was ours. That was the reason I was here …………………. that he should not do it because………. so he became …………but, on the contrary, he wanted to enter this city and destroy it. That is how it seemed to Rais Norodim. For this and other reasons it is advisable always to keep ships in Ormuz to prevent access to this island because the Sheikh’s followers are many and will do a lot of damage, in the city, if not in the fortress. Done in this Fortress of the conception in Ormuz on 5th August, 1516,(A) (Signed) Pero de Albuqueque If your Highness does not wish to withdraw the Portuguese for a number of years, the defending of crimes and the appeals can be handed over to them. Since the King does not understand matters of justice and property, he would not find this strange in that land, because his governor, Rais Norodim, attends to everything, including the affairs of war. Thus, the King of Ormuz (A) This document is rather torn and faded in parts. Moreover, the ink was not dry when it was folded, so that it has become very difficult to read. If reading it was hard in the 18th century, what about today
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