_ 203 _ done Your Highness may services, both as a bachelor and as a married man, as D Pero de Castel Branco and Martim Afonso de Melo will confirm. Martim Afonso de Molo is also married and is always in service both in the fleets as captain of men and finding out how the kings neighbouring Ormuz whenever he comes to these lands I went two years ago, at the time when Martim Afonso was Governor and [the other] Martim Afonso Captain of Ormuz, as ambassador to the King of Shiraz with four Portuguese on horseback and six on foot as well as nine slaves, and on this I spent six hundred cruzados of my own and Your Highness’s money. I was given only two hundred slaves. I made peace with this King and caused eight thousand horsemen as well as footsoldiers to return to his lands although he did a great deal of damage to the King of Ormuz’s men. More could not have been done. In this I did a great service to Your Highness. I offered Luis Falcão, Your Highness’s Captain of Ormuz to go to Shah Tamasp at my own expense, but did not go, because by that time all was at peace. In the time of D Pedro I made peace with a captain of Shah Tamasp, who had six thousand horsemen in place last year and was capturing
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