_ 126 _ I do not know of any Captain among past ones who did this- that is to say, he did so many things in Your Highness’s factory, about which the Governor wrote to you. What I do know is that in two months, he removed five or six factors, and that he did many harmful things to be revenues of the King of Ormuz and he also made many arrests among the principal citizens and merchants of Ormuz, and he caused losses, as Your Highness will see from the letter from my father which is being sent with this one for Your Highness. Your Highness must have heard by last year’s carracks that Khwaja [?Qasim] is dead, and that on his death Governor Garcia de Sa appointed a brother-in- law of his to the Xabandaria of Ormuz. This is a post of which Your Highness has never appointed because it is the favour of the King of Ormuz. His Moorish servants and is always held by and of this your Highness can learn in much detail from noblemen, who were formerly Captains in Ormuz. This was something which caused sorrow to the King of Ormuz and to all the people and the Merchants. For this reason, a brother of Khwaja Qasim came from Ormuz to go to Portugal to request Your Highness to grant him the favour of the post of Xabander. When I saw what the King of Ormuz and my father were writing to Your Highness, I spoke to the Governor and requested him to
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