_ 354 _ been discovered sixty years with its pepper and never any money to purchase it, never is the contract for its purchase brought to a conclusion; there is no scale by which to weigh it, nor guards to prevent its being taken to Mequa and to other parts, and still less is there any order established for carrying out these things to advantage, the King our Lord meanwhile bestowing more favours on those he makes as of them to all the Princes of the world. The Turks have taken Aden on the Strait of Mequa, Baçora and Catifa or that of Ormuz, and furthermore Varem which is close upon it, and when they shall need the fortress there will be no relief. There is nothing done in this affair but talk. The King Cambay is fitting out a large fleet, the one of Calicut already makes was to us, and thus on all sides there is nothing buy labor et dolor, and what is practiced here against us is enough to astonish anyone to see the value they set upon it, for he says, how can he speak sensibly with the men of India, and daily it is affirmed that he is becoming lost to us. I quite see that whoever wishes to keep a strict account with the enemy, that he at once obtains the advantage even with greater needs than had Amrique Pexote [sic], but this can only be done, as in a similar case, when right is done, because he will not desist until he is cast out as I
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