_ 120 _ pharmacy because, as India is nearer to him, they could more easily be sent from there. He came here and I am sure that all the harm he could do me he did. Manuel Macedo witnessed everything, and he and all your servants will tell you the truth. He took Kalhat from Gomes Ferreira, which I had given him. He also seized a foist from Andre Ferreira, which Lobo Vaz had given him. Thus, everyone he could annoy, he annoyed. Item: As for what your Lordship states that if I were moderate in my expenses, I would receive 40,000 cruzados and no more because I do not feed anyone. I never did this before I was captain of a fortress, and I am doing so now just to see if I can take enough for people to eat. As for the 40,000 cruzados, I swear on the Gospels that no man worked more to have them than me or wants to have them more. However, I tell you that those captains who fulfil their duty, earn no money except by trading, and this is risky because all the trade is by sea, and if you want to earn 30,000 or 40,000 cruzados ashore, you are talking about robbery, just as Diogo de Melo, who is going there, did by embezzling more than 70,000 from the King, from Sharaf and from the whole of the country. plums, flour, rhubarb, sugar, cassia fistula and other items from the pharmacy.
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