_ 113 _ I have found. I still have hope in Our Lord that I shall find something worth fishing during the time that I am here and that good luck will not fail me, as it has this time. I have done many things to increase profits in this Customs House here, but until the Governor comes or sends me a message, I cannot take any further decisions. Your Highness days 30 leques to the Mogostao[??] of this Customs House. I almost came to an agreement with the Emir of Task[?] that he will give the 3,000 archers vassals of from the King of Ormuz to the Mogostao during his life time, provided that you are no longer obliged to pay him the 30 legues from the Custom House. This would have been done days ago, if the Captains had been prepared to loss the 10 leques which the Mogostao pays them every year. Thus, I am only waiting for the Governor so that this can be completed, although it is again the wishes of the Guazil and the King. With this man [the Emir of Jasoques??] as the Mogostão’s Guazil, no one gains anything except Your Highness and the land, because, by their sending a Guazil there every year, everything it lost destroyed. In Antonio da Silveira’s time, peace was made with Bahrain. According to the agreements, they had to give
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