_ 165 _ letters into his hands and I departed, and later on, being in Cochym I recounted affair to Antonyo, how in order to serve the King of Portugal I did not allow these letters to rest, and as soon as I had told him of this. Antonio came on to Ormuz and asked for the letters of Myr Mamede Xaa, and told him that he was going on to Portugal, and that to serve him he would be well pleased to take them, and on witnessing this, Mir Mamud Xaa administered the oath to him by the head of the King of Portugal, and on the Gospels, that Antonio would not give up these letters to anyone or give account of them, or show them to anyone but only give them up to the King of Portugal into his own hands, and in this manner were the letters taken and surrendered, and given up to another whom we held responsible, and in this way we delivered them up, and closed, and this that I write to you is the truth.
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