_ 121 _ that were there dead(A) and Diu enjoying peace and health. The Pathans [Afghans] came as far as the kingdom of Chitor(B), which belonged to the King of Cambay. They left their representative and from there they returned because of the winter. Today, the last Thursday in August, the factor Antonio Ribeiro(C) arrived here and told me that they were saying there that one of my attendants here had been slashed on the face by a cutlass. He was right to conclude that no-one should tell or write lies to the Governor because we are all obliged to tell him the truth, but this is like all the other things that they say to him about me. The Governor ought to treat me fairly in this, if not, may Our Lord reward me. It is said that the lad who sustained the cutlass stroke was mine and that a servant of Martim Afonso de Melo(D), who used to live opposite him, delivered the blow to his face. Furthermore, the person who suffered it is a negro, who is not worth four bazarucos. This is the truth, so let nothing more be said in this matter. As I say, everything (A) Patana, a town on the Cambay coast, to the north of Diu. (B) A kingdom bordering on Cambay. (C) Antonio Ribeira, it seems, was one of the factors of Bassein, as was João Teixeira. (D) Martim Afonso de Melo Jusarte preceded Luis Falcão in the captaincy of Ormuz.
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