_ 57 _ tion: a noteworthy deed, to be sure, and one worthy of being glorified and praised by writers everywhere, but later criticized by his sons, as we will relate in its place. Nuho da Cunha gave Sheikh Rashid his letters of appointment as Wazir of Ormuz in the name of the King of Portugal; and because an investigation into the death of Ras Hamede (of which we will give an account later) found that the King of Ormuz was involved, he ordered the King to pay another forty thousand pardaus in tribute which, with the sixty thousand he had already been obliged to pay, now amounted to one hundred thousand. Nuno da Cunha issued a Directive to Cristovão de Mendoça, the commander of the fort, dated August 29th, 1529. In which he ordered that the full tribute should be paid for out of the King’s customs revenue raised in Ormuz. This is the reason for this tribute and not that given by Fernão Lopes de Castanheda in his seventh book where he states that Nuno da Cunha added forty thousand perdaus onto the King of Ormuz’s tribute in order to restore Bahrain to obedience, which he did not do; and we have in our possession in the Royal Archive a copy of this Directive and contracts. And because Belchior de Sousa, the Portuguese commander in the Gulf, had performed so well and
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