_ 79 _ control of your city. By telling lies they deprive the most important men of this city of their property and what they do not possess. Since Your Highness is a just man and protects all those in the land, you must command that they also protect your people of Ormuz, and the merchants who come to it, and provide for us before we perish utterly, and you lose your lands and people of Ormuz. I beg Your Highness to do what is necessary for your service and profit and the population of your city of Ormuz and all the merchants and all the other people who come to the city from many parts, so that it may become itself again and your lands be inhabited as they were in times past. The King is writing to Your Highness, and so are the people, and myself, as you will see from their letters, and from Mir [Lasaa] his ambassador, who will give Your Highness a full account of everything. The King and everyone beg Your Highness that, as you send to this city every three years a captain to make his own profit and do Your Highness a disservice, you will now do us the favour of sending us as Captain for a period of ten years João Rodrigues de Laronha. In the time he was here he always worked to serve Your Highness and to ennoble your city and people it, and he honoured and treated everyone kindly, both residents and merchants. We were at peace, and he defended our laws and all the people.
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