_ 164 _ To do so, as in three or four days’ time he wished to depart, and I told him to bring me the letters of the Algoazyr and after seeing them I would write accordingly to the others and he assented to this, and as soon as he went for them I proceeded to recount all this affair to Myr Mamede Xaa and it seemed to him that we should endeavor not to allow this letter to proceed on as being more to the service of the King of Portugal, and when Cujas Adim brought me the letter I bade him read them to me and that in the morning I would let him have them with the others, and he read them to me, and as soon as he was gone I went to show them to Myr Mamud Xaa, and as soon as I had shown them to him I concealed them in a wall, and on the next day Cujas Adim came to demand the letter and I told him I had lost them. He at once commenced to fight and to speak ill, and he sent two slaves to beat me so that by the help of blows I should return him his letters, and the Myr Mamud Xaa told me that it was right not to give them up again at any time these letters, so that thereby we should serve the King of Portugal, and we did so and after the departure of the Algoazyr with Manuel do Macedo to India I went with them and on departing with them Myr Mamede asked me for the letters so as to keep them until we should find someone to take them to Portugal, and I delivered up to him the
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