_ 188 _ I am also told here, although these are matters of the people which I do not believe, that changes are to be made among some Portuguese officials who hold permanent posts in this city which our Lord the King granted, and others who have purchased them for money because they were here first. About this I remind Your Lordship that before such changes are made you should hear the parties concerned; for information from a distance and persons who are absent are always bad, since bad men speak and good men are silent. I remind you of this, Sir, as your servant, and it may be that they do not deserve that I should do so, because the Portuguese are very hard to please. But I am writing this letter not as guazil but as Your Lordship’s servant, and my wish is that all that concerns you should be done as it should be for your duty to God and your King. Your office, your person and your nobility. For two years Sheikh [Rebea] has been in command of Kalhat as well as Muscat, of which I say nothing save that he pays something to the King of Ormuz. Now the King of Daman has attacked him and killed over eighty of his men and seized his baggage and horses and as a result is not
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