_ 236 _ more than two ships in which I can send up to twenty-five men, and I am leaving immediately for Aden. May it please Our Lord that this will all have the result Your Lordship desires. I am having to do everything in great haste. Your Lordship may rest assured that I have no desire other than to serve you. What I request of Your Lordship if you think it right is, as soon as you receive the present letter, to send me fifty men, for with them and those I have, if Our Lord wills perhaps Your Lordship will find me in Aden when you leave. If Your Lordship sends me a ship, order her to call at Qism, for there they will find news of me and what they are to do. Please send me the wherewithal to sustain the soldiers and the seamen, for Dom Manuel sent me nothing in these two ships in which I am to sail, and I am equipping them at my own expense. I shall give not give the rest of the news in the present letter, for I refer to the one which Pero da Mesquita is bringing. On arrival in Goa, he should remind Your Lordship to send my greetings to our lord, the King, telling him how I am going on this journey to serve him, and also to the Count of Castanheira.
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