_ 123 _ (13) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1545) Dom Joao III sent a letter to Dom Joao de Castro, Viceroy of India, Ivora, on the 13th of March 1545, ordering him not to interfere with the merchant ships or the inhabitants of the Arab coast:(13) Friend, Dom João : I, the King, send you greetings. The King of Ormuz wrote, requesting me in his notes, kindly to attend to the matters mentioned below, which I instruct you to arrange and to do what is stated at the end of each section of this letter. Item: First that your order Reia Mahmud the Guazil of Bahrain, and Reis Bahdardin, Guazil of Julfar, and the other guazils, to give an account to him, because it is long time since they did so. I am entrusting you to instruct the said
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