_ 353 _ I pleased Your Worship and served you. Some news of my voyage and of India, it may please you to know and I to recount. I departed from Portugal on the twenty third of March, I passed the Cape or Good Hope on the tenth of June, took Moçambique on the eighteenth of August, and left it on the twenty second, and owing to shortened winds and the vessel being a bad one, to govern, I reached India on the twentieth day of October, with great stress of water, wine and refreshments, and with forty or fifty invalid and seven or eight men dead. I, at once made for Cochin, because unable to proceed to Goa, where I learnt that Jorge Cabral was Governor, and that I was to go there, and so it was, and because there was no pepper there, and as it was said money either, the ships were laden late,and I later still than they, wherefore I was not able to depart until the twenty-third of February with some two thousand quintals less of pepper and other goods that the ship could have taken if there had been any there. Truly there is much to marvel at when witnessing what takes place along the world, and nothing else can be said in this case by those who see with their eyes India, and the things there, and here we have this land that has
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