_ 188 _ Luís Falcão offered to me to stay here because he saw the problems of the place and because it was in the interests of His Highness. Your Lordship should take him to task if the place was in that state, because he took from Ormuz and from Muscat one of his foists and a hundred men in a galleon, all without my permission. Most of them had fled from this fortress, as has been recently confirmed to me from Muscat. This is presumably a term [liam in Portuguese of the period] signifying some item of artillery (translator’s note). Francisco Pires is much needed here, as I have already written to tell Your Lordship. There are many things in this fortress which can be put right. There are battlements blocked with earth nearby, from where it would be possible to bombard this fortress. I am sending António Gonçalves to you, and he will give you this letter, requesting of your certain measures which are needed here. I beg you to grant me the favour of listening to him and sending him back with messages, because in so doing you will be granting me a favour, and the measures are in His Highness’s interests. António Gonçalves will also give Your Lordship the opinions I have
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