_ 31 _ one Luzo de Guemad son of Alomso Amriques my Uncle whom may God pardon, of an arrow wound he received from a poisoned arrow; in this undertaking he had helped me very well as being a brave man; of the said Mombaça there died many Moors, and the chief among them; she is now stronger than she ever was because she had no wall and now she is surrounded by a new one, after this they demanded peace, I would not permit any talk about this because they are a very treacherous people and they never side with us, let them first desist from treacheries and all the evils they can; from thence I came to the island of Zamzibar where owing to my ill health I remained thirty or forty days. I arrived to Moçabique at the end of January, still under bad treatment, and I found the Governor Martim Afonso with the determination of going to India at the end of April, which thing seemed to me to be very much to the service of Your Highness for many reasons which I do not state here, and which you will already know through the persons who went from India last year, the left here in a galleon at the end of February with good weather. He is a person who is greatly desired in India, and has many good qualifications for her, from whom Your Highness it is accepted will be well served, he ordered to
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