_ 38 _ Francisco Pereira, Afonso Enriques, João de Meira, Ferno de Resede, ….. Jorge de Orta, Pero de Bachão Corso. All serve Your Highness so well, without causing any trouble in the city, by attending to the business of your service, always sleeping in the naus, because it seemed to me easier, since thank God, there was never any disorder. We were always on friendly terms with the King and the local people, who also deserve our gratitudes for the building work by always helping with the money form tributes….in years gone by and with building materials for constructing the fort. Your Highness should also generously reward the captains who served so well and express your thanks in writing. Since Your Highness undoubtedly did us all a favour by giving us such a respected person as Lopo Soares as our Captain, it should always be thus. Although your favours and rewards cause your men more and more work in your service, let them not be so few, Sir, as those I saw here for me this year(?). A (letter?) arrived from Your Highness for the Captain General Lopo Soares in which you requested him to receive me into his charge, after all the enterprises of India had been distributed.
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