_ 161 _ securely, and despite all his brawling for them and tearing his hair, we would never give them up, and we kept them in our possession until the Algoasyr departed from Ormuz to India in whose company this same honored man went and at the time of departing I told him not to take letters with him and to leave them in my possession and that I would give them to some faithful person and that I would send them to Portugal, and he therefore left them with me, and departed and I remained perplexed in whom I should entrust such a jeuel [sic] who should be able to take them concealed, and who should not show them to anyone but to Your Highness. I never could find anyone to trust them to and always I kept them carefully until I went to Ormuz and being on service one day at the Palace there came to me Antonyo and told me that being in Cochym that honored man came to him and narrated to him all that had passed with me and wished to know whether I would give him the letters and I replied that he must swear to me by the head of the King of Portugal and by the Book of the Gospels that what I should give him, and say to him, that he would not give up. Nor declare to any one, excepting to the King of Portugal and that he should keep this my secret and not to discover it to any Moor, or to anyone else, and he told me he was
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