_ 78 _ through his great kindness and mercy, our Lord, the King had given an appointment to Rais Sharaf, who had arrived as a Muslim, and he was their fellow countryman. They decided that he [Rais Sharaf] had to give them one leque in xerafins, leque in larins, thirty coats of mail and thirty baskets of grain of me, my wife and my daughter. I told them that my…… give the coats of mail but that there was not grain except in Portugal. He would give them the legue in xerafins and the leque in larins. They said they would take me to Goa and that I could write to Ormuz from there. The next morning, I went to see my wife and daughter, whose wounds had not healed. I gave them an account of the agreement for which we gave thanks to almighty God and to the Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God. During our journey, we came across five more terradas, manned by pirates: these were carrying gold. They were part of this Captain-Major’s company and were heading inland from the Cape. They had a battle with one of Khwaja Camacadym’s tanos and had wounded practically all the men. Nonetheless, because of the very strong winds, they had not been able to capture it. The tano was carrying archers, one short piece of cannon and one shot gun. The
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