_ 141 _ with the fleet, and by the fifteenth of this month, with God’s help, they will all have left here. Three of the fidalgos remain here, and, as Your Lordship commanded, I wrote to each of them individually. I gave a foist to Khwaja Shams-al-Din to send to Cape Comorin to collect money owed to him. I think that Your Lordship will approve. I am sending the register of the ships to you. Your Lordship can be sure that I have had a great deal of work to send to you some of the ships belonging to these men, for they are so poor that they could not raise a loan and had nothing to sell; yet these ships have been prepared better by those who are poor than by some who had money. For this reason, I beg Your Lordship to give orders for them to be paid the expenses they have incurred in doing this and like wise to grant them some voyages, for they deserve all the favours you can grant them for the goodwill with which they go to serve you. May Our Lord Increase Your Lordship’s life and estate. From the fortress of Cannanore, 15 September 1547. I kiss Your Lordship’s hands, Manuel de Vasconcelos. (with a wax seal) (186v) To my Lord, the Governor.
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