_ 207 _ necessary, that] you should receive all these lies from me as true information. Your Lordship writes to tell me that I should not carry out any building work in this fortress and that I should not continue with what has been started. Your Lordship must allow it this, for it is essential for the defense of this fortress. With three or four hundred thousand pardaus it could be strong enough for anything, and since it brings in one hundred thousand it does not seem reasonable [….] to save the expenditure of four thousand pardaus. So Your Lordship must write to tell me what to do, and send me this before May. I asked this of Martim Afonso de Sousa through Bernaldim de Sousa, because I must ask for what I see this fortress needs. Your Lordship will provide what you think is in the best interests of His Highness. This foist was prepared to be sent as aid to Kalhat because [...] the factor that [...] from Portuguese […] I ordered him that as soon as the business on which he was sent was completed he should go to see Your Lordship, and also take my letters to Cochin, because I had to reply to the letters that came this year, and also to give a report myself on this kingdom to His Highness. [ I request] Your Lordship to give
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