_ 65 _ about one thing and I shall certainly do so every time you give me orders. If Rais Sharaf now takes ten or fifteen xerafins, I would make him accept 800, if Your Highness ordered me to do so. Thus is Your Highness served as you order and if you want to offend me, it shall be as you order. Manuel de Macedo, in whom Your Highness places to much trust, as does the Governor, will give Your Highness good account of Rais Sharaf’s imprisonment and what happened. The Governor took the King’s Treasurer, Khwaja Ibrahim, prisoner, which united the city against him. Although he was found to be guilty of certain offences, my advice was not to imprison him for the time being. The Governor says that the King of Ormuz requested his arrest, but the King says that it was the Governor who forced him to do so. I do not know which is the truth. I only heard from the King that he was a prisoner in the fortress, and that they were asking him for a large amount of money and taking him to India. Khwaja Ibrahim does not want to pay anything. The Moors, think this is tyranny rather than justice. They think that, if he has done so much thieving and so many evil things, it would be better and more just to cut off his head in the square than to hold him prisoner. They have asked
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