_ 76 _ best way in which the King of Ormuz could be discharged and acquitted of the large amount of money he owed by way of tribute to the King of Portugal. Many other issues were added to this, and in the presence of the Captain of the Fortress, the Guazil and Licentiate António Cardoso, who had powers from the Chief Treasury Officer, King Salgur Shah made a gift of the revenues of the customs house to the King of Portugal in the following terms: That the King of Ormuz presented the customs house of the island of Jarum incontestably to the King of Portugal, on condition that he would be quit of all the debts he owed him up to that time, from which he would be released in due form. I saw this in the book from which I copied these paragraphs with the rest of the information and deed of gift and the origin and foundation of the Kingdom of Goa, when I sent a report to Diogo do Couto, casado of Goa, for which he had asked me in order to continue his Décadas. That the King of Portugal would command that he should be given the following from those revenues: forty leagues, which is one thousand eight hundred cruzados each year from the customs house for his personal clothing allowance; a further two hundred and fifty leagues,
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