_ 262 _ In the same year (1548) Nuno Goncalves da Cunha sent a letter to the Governor Dom João de Castro, Qalhat, on the 29th of January 1548, regarding Sheikh Rubai', the Grand Vizier of the Kingdom of Ormuz:(64) Sir, Men labour to receive rewards in order to live out the rest of their lives, and I am very pleased with what my lord your father gave me. But I am so envious of the great things that are being done in India and the great honour that fidalgos and casados and lascars have won under the leadership and with the favour of the lord Governor that, not content with having been present at the raising of the siege of Diu, I should have liked to have taken part in it all. I acknowledge that I have some profit here, but with it there are so many unpleasant things, and it is so little in (64) Document no. and reference.
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