_ 198 _ if our commerce and trade are removed, they will destroy themselves and abandon the place; for apart from this lack of supplies, the King of Basra is their enemy, and they are so far from their own lands that no aid, or money to pay the soldiers can be sent from there, and without these the war cannot be sustained. As this is my opinion, I sign here on the last day of September 1547. Manuel de Lima (?)
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