_ 127 _ (15) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1530) The terms of surrender, that were reached between Heitor de Silveira and the King of Aden, came in 1530, and it was stated that the King of Aden had surrendered himself to the Portuguese:(15) That the King of Aden rendered himself a vassal of Dom João of Portugal, and of all his descendants, with ten thousand pardaus of gold as tribute each year, of which he would at once deliver up one thousand five hundred with which to work in Ormuz a crown of gold for the King, which would be sent by the first ships as a first offering of the tribute. That the ships of the King of Aden and of his merchants would navigate freely along all parts they should wish, withdrawing from Mecca, without our fleets interfering with them.
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