_ 32 _ be taken from this factory a hundred and seventy or eighty bahares of ivory the greater part of which were from parts where payments had been made to him, he left orders that from the first that should come to this Factory they should pay the said parts, as I ordered should be done as soon as. I arrived here from Çofala; the ships were not ready for which reason they did not go with him, I was charged to have them sent out as early as possible; they were ready on the eighth of March and departed on the twentieth of the said month, because the weather was not fit before. Each of these vessels took two cables of Cairo [fibre] newly made as they wished of which they were in great need, end of all else they were equipped the best that could be done in so barren a land, may it please God to give them a good voyage: there remained many invalids in this Hospital, and others convalescent, very poor, out of it, as soon as the ships lent they were able to be better provided and relieved, and owing to the despairing of the ships being able to come here as it was so late, I gave them all passage to India. Senhor, after the departure of the Governor and of the ships, I went to Çofala and found the land very much wrecked by war that exists among the Caffres which is such that, they would not allow any ransom to go to the fortress, end owing to their being possessed of no reason or
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