_ 463 _ came here, as I told Your Lordship in a letter sent during the last monsoon, and he was pleased with this treatment. Such men are always harmful to the countries where they are, especially Moors, who only live by theft and bullying, and he tried some dirty tricks which he did not get away with because they were harmful to the merchants and local trade. He recently wanted to leave, and because Shah Tahmasp claims to be King and Lord of this land and the Kingdom of Lar and says as much in the letters and instructions he sends and writes, the Captain thought he should not allow this man to go or to take any goods from this island until matters were settled between this Kingdom and the King of Lar concerning the fortress of [Lostão] which they captured from him four months ago, as I told Your Lordship. So far nothing has been done about this, except that the Guazil of Ormuz has written to the King of Lar and he has replied, and time goes by in letters and answers. Yesterday, 18th November, I asked the Guazil how things stood between this Kingdom and Lar, because I wanted to write about this to Your Lordship. He told me that that very day a courier he had sent had arrived, and that in the letters that had been written to him he was given to understand that he should give something and
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