_ 34 _ nothing better than our friendship and communication they prevented it up to this time. When he sent four Portuguese with the said Ambassadors and charged them to tell me to send him a trusty man with some others and that he would promise to open the roads in such a manner that the Caffres and Merchants might come to traffic as formerly; and he merely wished to retain there this man, so as to be certain that we desired his friendship, of which he was in doubt as there had elapsed a long time that he had not sent to visit the said fortress, which it appeared was because he could not do so any more . It was the opinion of the native Moors and old men of the place, and my own also, that it would be as well to send him the said man which he had sent to ask for, in order to confirm those that should come from thence that he could go without any danger and get into the rule of Portuguese Ambassadors going to the said Benamotapa and being well treated the one selected for this mission being Fernam de Proença, who was there scrivener of the Factory, a man of good understanding and experienced and accustomed to the land, he was pleased to go, believing that in so doing he would be doing some service to Your Highness. He took many gifts may it please God that this ground should redound and yield in this land a great advantage to Your
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