_ 56 _ The shop was thereafter called Cona Gaspar, which means Gaspar's House. As in time the income from it increased, the King of Ormuz seized it for himself but gave the two hundred pardaos pension from the revenue to the interpreters who worked for him. At times a king would give this money to some of the captains, and others of them took it by force, as we shall tell in due course. Having concluded his business in Ormuz, the Secretary embarked on Goa with the last ships that were leaving to winter there.
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