_ 145 _ His Highness will gain much honour and profit, while this can be done with little expense. Only provisions for the Portuguese need to be paid as they would be if they were here in the fortress without doing anything. The time when I can leave here is at the end of September, when it is known that there are no Turks around; I am keeping all the men together for when the merchants’ ships are all ready to leave, in which the men can embark without any expenditure or waste in going and coming back, if Our Lord is good to us. We can wait two or three months at the most, with all the slackness and delays. If this affair is settled, in which much honour can be gained, Your Lordship will done a great favour. You will not wish to make me lose, for I am so bad a merchant and my business yield so badly that I should like to have something to support me. Although I have more reason to beg at favour of His Highness. It is now in Your Lordship’s power because I am something here and you are there, and the cause is Our Lord’s to grant me favour, for I am very confident that Our Lord will favour, in this matter on account of its purpose, with which I hope to do good. I know that Your Lordship will be pleased to show me favour, especially in something which so much effects my honour. For this reason, I shall not importune you further,
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