_ 44 _ house. If these did not come to the right amount, the remainder should be collected from all the other revenues of the kingdom until the sum was made up. But as the King was then left without means of sustenance, Nuno da Cunha then ordered that his revenues should not be touched and that the tribute should come only from the customs for two thirds of the sum, and the other third should be left to the King for his expenses. As at that time the revenue was insufficient to cover everything, the King of Ormuz was left owing a large sum of money because the shortfall was charged to him as a debt. When Viceroy D. Garcia sent to Ormuz for an account of the amounts due, it was found that at the end of 1539 the King owed three hundred and seventy-seven thousand fifty-two xerafins seven cadis forty-seven denaris. The King issued an acknowledgement of this debt, sealed with his seal, which Governor Martim Afonso found in the accounts office in Goa. Some say that the forty thousand pardaos mentioned above were added by Governor Nuno da Cunha to the tribute payable by the King of Ormuz because he had been found to be at fault in the matter of the death of Reis Hamed, who had succeeded to the Guazilship of Ormuz during the absence of Reis Sharaf when he had been taken as prisoner to Portugal, as related in the Fourth Década.
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