_ 514 _ came to it this year, on account of the rain. I am now sending a large quantity of quinces, apples and pears to Your Lordship, but I guess all will be rotten because of the long delay of the ships in leaving this Strait - a well-known piece of incompetence. Let Your Lordship instruct Antonio Fernandes to give you an account. May Our Lord came to prolong your life and may He be with you in all your affairs. I remind Your Lordship that you wrote to me to do me honour and favour, and during the last monsoon you said to me in one of your letters that you were sorry for the hardships of India. To this I replied to Your Lordship that if you had little concern about them, what would become of us all and the King's State in this region? But we clearly recognized it in your works and illustrious deeds. Blessed be Your Lordship that such a great and perilous event, so full of risk and difficulty, happened, wherein it was possible to show the great and excellent virtues of gentleness and fortitude that reside in your heart and spirit, which may God increase so as to accomplish greater feats. Sir, since the Lord God wished Nuno Pereira to put an end to our period of leave from Your Lordship, may I remind you of his wife and daughters who must miss him a great deal and on whom Your Lordship can confer many honours and favours, as I know that you grant them to everyone
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