_ 172 _ of the Governor, was one of Your Highness’s naus and two fustas; another by another of this overseers to Negapatão; another by a groom-in-waiting whom he had brought from Portugal, a captain on the Chromandel coast where he had become very rich; another to China by João Ruiz Carvalho, with one nau, another by D. Fernando de Noronha to China and; two voyages also to China by António de Sa, which he sold in Malacca; another by Fernão da Salva and another by Belchior De Sousa. Fernão de Sousa de Tavora had another voyage to China but new reached this land that the Castilians were in Maluquo and he went to the Governor to say he did not want to go to China and to request that he be allowed to go to the Moluccas, which request was wanted. He is there at present with one galleon and two fustas and has 100 men with him. They are going in the service of Your Highness and all the captains I have mentioned above going on these journeys overseas on the orders of the Governor would not earn much money if they did not take lot of people from India with them. Therefore, Your Highness should act the Governor for detailed accounts of 16,000 men who are registered, with the exception of some causalities, old or deceased which could amount to 1,000. This in fact allows for a large margin
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