_ 172 _ In the same year (1547) Joao de Maguilheis sent a letter to the Viceroy from Goa, dated September 1547, and he stated his opinion on the boycott:(42) My view is that Your Lordship should order and insist that no trade from anywhere be carried on with Basra, since there are no funds in that country with which to pay the soldiers apart from the revenues of the Custom House. If there is no money, the troops will become restless, because these are men who, if they are not paid, do not obey their captain. I have already been informed that they tried to kill the treasurer because he did not pay them, so he was obliged to borrow money from merchants to supply the ships from (42) Document no. and reference.
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