_ 37 _ be pleased to do so, in view of how greatly it behaves your service, because it is bad enough for a thing from which so much depends and may result, to be so weak, and have in itself no resistance, when it could be do strengthened at the same expense only with this that I say above which costs no more than to remember this at the departure of the ships, and this same thing was the Governor Martim Affonso's opinion, should he not write about it will be on account that with the pressure of many other affairs he may have overlooked it. I beg to make this reminder on account of the duty I owe your service, and Your Highness will give such orders in respect to this as shall best please you, I beg to remind Your Highness that I have a great will and desire to serve you and that for this I merit of Your Highness all the thought you may have; of myself if I should have to from thence be pleased to grant me a ship in which to go. May our Lord increase the life and Royal Estate of Your Highness as He may desire Written in Moçambique on the tenth of August one thousand five hundred and forty two João de Sepulveda. On the superscription for the King our lord From João de Sepulveda.
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