_ 356 _ should know, and these I have no doubt were correct ones whether to return or not, but up to the present I only know that I was right. I made for the port of Amgediva, where the ship wintered, because she was unable to go to Old Goa, and from thence in seven to eight days Jorge Cabrall replied to my letters, giving me news trust worthy ones, of the coming of the Rumes to India at the beginning of the summer for which he was making ready with many deficiencies. As he said of many things which were necessary, each one of these being such substantial points in the government of India, and which seems to compel him to so much, like the clock to strike the hours to those who hear, and which to write and discuss each one of them would be an endless thing, and even this might offer some remedy were it not that a man would seem to be clothed in long garments which do not belong to him, but there is even in this case a worse feature. Which I decline to touch upon, so much so that I went then on to him, he appointing another Captain to the ship, and with my deficiencies and weak counsels, I did what at the present hour Your Worship already knows, but this
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