_ 78 _ increase of life, in whose service I wish to end my days for my greater honour. King and Lord of all the world, I inform Your Highness that your city of Ormuz and its kings have always been among the most honoured and prosperous and wealthy in all these parts, as everyone knows, and now, because they belong to Your Highness, it will be even more so. But now, as a result of your Portuguese, [...] lost and it seems that we shall be completely ruined [if] Your Highness, with your justice, does not deal with the imprisonments and wrongs committed against us by your Christians. Not only do they not serve Your Highness, but they deprive your lands of residents and merchants who bring all the profit to it, and they take their goods from them for lower prices than they ask. They do the same to the men who sell fruit, meat, hens and water in which those men who can do nothing else trade, and so they no longer do this or bring supplies and profits, and people your lands. Because of the offences committed against them they are leaving the land and never coming back, as Your Highness must already know from some people. They go away from these lands, and this is the work of your men who hold the offices of your justice and the
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