_ 324 _ In the same year (1548) Local orders were issued by Dom Alvaro de Castro to Dom Joao de Ataide, Canacani Islands, on the 27th of March 1548, to head to Aden:(78) Sir, What you are to do is as follows: Item: You will remain here in the Canacany islands until 3 April, on the island from where you can give warning of any of our ships coming from India. I think that your presence there until that time will be sufficient, because I have been here for ten days, and the six days you will spend of this month and next make a total of sixteen days, and I think that if the ship has not come by then, it never sailed. Item: When the foist bringing supplies arrives, you will put aboard her the pilot I left with you so that he can (78) Document no. and reference.
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