_ 259 _ giving Your Lordship this opinion with the candour on which I pride myself in the service of His Highness, and Your Lordship should believe me in this. If these arguments I am offering are acceptable to Your Lordship, you must send authority for me to be able to defray the expenses which will be needed in this matter. Your Lordship will forgive me for giving my opinion on these matters from here when you have not asked me for it. As these matters are of importance, deliberation is likely to appear advisable to Your Lordship. Rather than your agreeing that this would be the best of all courses of action, I beg you to grant me the favour of sending a writ so that all the matters you command in it shall at once be done in detail. Until this writ arrives from Your Lordship, no terradas, nor Moors, nor Jews nor any kind of people [will leave here for (?)] there. With this first monsoon many ships arrived, and they brought men, and there are at a reasonable estimate more than three hundred persons now here in Ormuz, although many of them will be obliged to move on. I beg Your Lordship to grant me the favour of sending from there fifty soldiers who will be obliged to stay and sleep in this fortress, for there are good houses which
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