_ 200 _ of Barem as Your Highness is no doubt aware, seeing the death roll of the men who went with Simão da Cunha, for in this point Catifa is no better than Barem, nor less rank probably the worst in the world. In my company went Jorge de Souza sharing all these labours, because I judged that by so doing to serve Your Highness, and though he may be my own brother I shall not thereby he reluctant to stating that he is ever ready to serve Your Highness in any, and all dangers, and labours from which any good may come (sic) and Your Highness should believe this of me, even should he be to me more than a brother for were this not any opinion and belief, I would not state it as I do, for in an affair of the kind a man is not bound even to his father and mother. After I arrived to Ormuz I departed within twelve days for India where I met Dom Johão de Castro in whose company I remain, and all that up to the present I have noticed in him is a great desire to do the best for the service of Your Highness, and very stern in this, and may it please God that he should do it better and better, because independently of being for Your Highness, it is also very advantageous to us here who walk in his company and a great food to be with a man who cheerfully bears with the labour and oppressions of the place.
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