_ 43 _ thirty-five thousand gold xerafins which with the twentyfive thousand already agreed came to sixty thousand. He and his successors would be obliged to pay this in gold, silver and pearls, for the expenses of the country, with the proviso that, in the event of war with Cambay, which provided the principal revenue of the customs house there, for as long as the war lasted, they would not pay more than the twenty-five thousand xerafins of the first agreement. All this can be better seen in the book of the Standing Orders of the fortresses of India held in the accounts office of Goa, compiled by Simão Botelho, Chief Treasury Officer, which I copied in a book I have written on all the vassal kings, which is in the Torre do Tombo. After 1529, when Nuno da Cunha wintered in Ormuz on his way from Portugal, after the loss of Bahrain, he made peace terms with the Guazil, who was sentenced to pay forty thousand gold xerafins because of the revolt he led. This sum was later Taken from the Coimbra 1937 edition, pp. 553-559, 553-559. Imposed by Nuno da Cunha on the King of Ormuz, as the Guazil was his vassal, setting it down in the Standing Orders of that fortress. Thus, the tribute came to one hundred thousand pardaos, which the Governor ordered should be taken from the revenues of the customs
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