_ 100 _ pinch of pepper or ginger missing. I sent servants of mine in the catur with Pedro Fernandes de Carvalho, a man of my company, as captain. They brought the terrada in opposite the fortress, and I sent for Diogo Espinel, the alcaide and guard of the sea, and for the Crown Judge, and ordered them into the terrada to make a list of everything they found in it. I ordered the factor and clerks of the factory to weigh the pepper and ginger and everything else in the terrada, publicly and in the presence of the Crown Judge and Diogo Espinel, in the shelter against the fortress wall. It was all weighed and handed over to the Factor. Diogo Espinel is asking for his share of it. When the terrada was unloaded, I ordered it to be beached opposite the Harbour Master's office, which is in the middle of the city, and I ordered that it was to be burnt so that not a piece of wood remained, and that the officers of the law in this city and the public crier were to be there. The public crier proclaimed in a loud voice the reasons for which I had ordered that boat to be burned. Half the people in the city came to hear the crier speak in the name of His Highness, and many Portuguese.
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