_ 12 _ elsewhere. These are very unstable times, and it takes many days to arrive here, but I have done the best I could as Antonio Rodrigues will tell Your Lordship. I am very pleased that Your Lordship is well and in good health. No one could be more pleased than I am because, besides owing this to Your Lordship, your excellent qualities which put me under no obligation, nevertheless oblige me to be. Your qualities are so great so honourable, so full of good and holy attributes that the man who dares to murmur against them is ill born and badly brought up. Our lord employs you only for good actions. Even your enemies are aware of the great virtue which resides in Your Lordship. Your Lordship writes to me that, with considerable difficulty, he is still building this fortress. We are very lucky to have your Lordship to save us from such hardships, taking it upon yourself. Indeed, Your Lordship is fortunate because of the great honour which the Lord has granted you in carrying out his works and in wishing to save his Christian people who, by this strong hand alone, has ensured the protection of Your Lordship’s administration in these parts so that you may govern and help them in all their concerns. I wrote previously to Your Lordship, in another via through your servant Pedro Cordeiro. I think that this was
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