_ 45 _ This is incorrect, because in the accounts of the Factors who served in Ormuz at that time, I have found these forty thousand xerafins entered with a note that they were paid by the Guazil of Bahrain as tribute because of the revolt he led. As this Guazil was a vassal of the King of Ormuz and paid these forty thousand pardaos to him, either as tribute or as revenue, it could hardly be supposed that he paid forty thousand pardaos to the King of Portugal and as many again to the King of Ormuz. Nuno da Cunha ordered that these additional forty thousand pardaos should be charged to the King of Ormuz and that he should collect them from his Guazil, since he was his vassal; and that the money for some years which the Guazil of Bahrain had paid should be deducted from the debt owed by the King of Ormuz for tribute he was obliged to pay. This matter was very confusing because the actual documents on this were lost, and it could only be settled by the Standing Orders of the fortress of Ormuz. These ordered that the hundred thousand pardaos should be collected from the King, without any further comments save that they were tribute. Martim Afonso de Sousa found the acknowledgements of debt in the accounts, and ordered new accounts to be drawn up from 1539 to the beginning of the current year of
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