_ 62 _ because there was clear proof of the justification of the sentence and of other sums which I made Diogo de Melo pay those people from whom he had taken what was theirs. I hope that Your Highness will grant me great honours for having justly pacified this city for you although, after the Governor’s passage here, I have seen many things which do not correspond to this line of behaviour. Manuel de Macedo will tell Your Highness about them. Diogo de Melo has destroyed Pama Guzarate to whom Your Highness wrote via Manuel de Macedo. Diogo de Melo demanded a certain sum of money from him saying that Pama owed it. It was to no avail that Pama produced bills and evidence that he had paid the money. Diogo de Melo refused to give them back when Pama Guzarate paid him. Pama Guzarate is still in jail. Khwaja Namata, to whom Your Highness wrote, and many others are complaining about these and other such matters. I trust that they have written to Your Highness about how few punishments have been carried out. I do not know what else to tell Your Highness except that after the Governor arrived here, Diogo de Melo did just what he wanted. The King and the Moors are scandalised that they do not punish him for his thieving and everything else he
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