_ 323 _ Item: If you get to Ormuz you will make sure that you sell the drugs at a very high price. You will come to Muscat in June so that you can reach India at the beginning of September, and you will do this because it is in the interest of our lord the King. Item: If you run into such bad weather at sea when you leave here that you are sometimes unable to proceed, you will return here. Item: You are advised that not a single penny of the money you make on the goods you are carrying is to be spent, however great the need may be, nor are you to hand it over to the factor or any other person however much you are asked, but you are to take it to India and deliver it to Rui Gonçalves de Caminhas, the Chief Treasury Officer. Written today in the Canacany Islands on 23 March 1548. I certify that D.Alvaro de Castro gave me the standing orders as above on the day written above. Andre [...] [sic].
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