_ 35 _ Highness then it has hither to done, and if this be not so in my time, I will consider myself very aggrieved. For as much as this things of Cofala are affairs that must be undone, I mean dissolved of themselves, leaving the Factory in a good state, I judged it a better service to Your Highness, to proceed to Moçambique even if by so doing I should experience loss and labour, where I am forced to be, until I know for certain if the Rumes are coming to this fortress, as it is said they are. Although of the coast it was my sincere opinion that it cannot be, but so long as this is so I am compelled to remain here where no work is done of what I wrote to Your Highness last year owing to the Governor wintering who occupied all the shipping which were to bring the stone and likewise all other materials needed for the work; this year I will work, God willing, so as to do the utmost I possibly can, and owing to one year of my time having already passed I shall be unable to do more than fortify this fortress on the site it stands the best that can be done, but for it to be strong I wish to be able to defend it with few men against an infinitude. This fortress should have been made on another site of this island where there is great convenience for it, and
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