_ 60 _ which he had not paid to the King while he was here, as well as other sums which he had wrongly taken from him. As soon as the sentence had been issued, I ordered it to be removed from the documents relating to the court proceedings and sent it to Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, who was Governor at the time. He sent a ship here for Diogo de Melo, as well as a directive which had been signed by him, the magistrate, João de Souro, and the magistrate in Goa. According to this document, if Diogo de Melo paid the fine or gave a guarantee in this city that he would pay it within three months, the Governor would allow him to go to India. Diogo de Melo went about assembling the necessary funds in order to pay. He already had a major part of them when I received news from India that António de Saldanha and Garcia de Sá had gone on and that Nuno da Cunha was on his way to be Governor and had not arrived. As it was already late, it seemed to me that he would not do so. Since it appeared to me that I would be serving Your Highness, as I was needed here, I appropriated one of the caravels which I had here. I loaded a great quantity of victuals and medicines for the sick, namely raisins, almonds, plums and flour, sugar, rhubarb, sugarcane, fistola and other items from the pharmacy, as well as two
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