_ 226 _ Your Highness must advise me what appears most in your service, for it may be that this matter will be kept in abeyance until we receive a message from you. [Meale] Khan was eating at his own expense and nothing was given to him at the expense of Your Highness's Treasury. This appeared very wrong to everyone, and he himself had bidden me complain about this. I was aware that on his account we were receiving so many thousands of pardaus in revenue from the mainland territories apart from much other money which has been received; and that he had arrived in the city of Goa because he trusted us and had lost the income and the favours he had been receiving from the King of Cambay. This was the situation in which he found himself, when he was in a position to become King of Achin. It seemed to me just and worthy of Your Highness's honour that he should be given his food at the cost of Your Highness's Treasury. I discussed this with the Chief Treasury Officer and other officials and arranged one thousand five hundred pardaus per year towards his maintenance. This was approved by everyone, especially the Moors and our neighbours, the Franks (Europeans). On the second day after I came ashore, when I was still staying with Martim Afonso, all the officials of the city of
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