_ 304 _ in the city, and this will consist of about one hundred and fifty lascars whose captain will be D. Paio de Noronha. If he has any objection, you will engage......(A) to stay with these people; and if he excuses himself from this duty, you will engage........(B); and if neither of these wishes to accept, you will choose for this the person who seems best to you. With these people who will remain on guard over the city you will leave five fustas, which will be under the authority and the orders of the captain, and will be the most mobile in the fleet. Item: All the time you are anchored there, you will ensure that no one sleeps on shore, so that if there are attacks by night, the fleet will not be ungarrisoned. As the men from India cannot bear to be in sight of land without going ashore frequently, and without due need, you will tell the captains that they may allow ashore every day a quarter of their people, on condition that they return to the ships to sleep. Item: To pay people who have to guard the city, I am having sent as great a quantity of spices as seem necessary to last for a year. These will be delivered to the person who (A) Here there is a blank space to be filled with the chosen noble’s name. (B) Another blank space.
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