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JOURNAL, R.A.S. ( CEYLON). [VOL. XIX. 



C 16. 



Letter of Affonso de Albuquerque to King Manuel. 1 

 [30 November 1513.] 



it seems to me, sire, that you ought not to have so much 



responsibility in India, but if anyone open his port to your trade 

 and goods, you should not hesitate to receive him with security 

 for your people and merchandize, and thus you would go on 

 gaining credit and fame in the country, and India would go on 

 becoming settled, at least from Cambaya to Ceilam, where your 

 ships have to do their loading : 



...... .how will such persons as these 2 send ships with goods to 



Urmuz and others to Pegu, and others to Bemgala, and others to 

 Zeila, to Barbora and Zeila, 3 and others to Malaca and Qamatara, 

 and others to Tanacarym, and others to Sarnao, and others to 

 Ceylam, to bring all the various kinds of goods to your factories for 

 the loading of your ships, since they have not chosen to put into 

 operation two such little things as I have mentioned above ?...... 



1 Printed in Cartas i. 151-55. 



2 The factors of Cochin, of whose negligence Albuquerque is com- 

 plaining. 



3 This repetition of Zeila is probably a copyist's error. 



C 17. 



Letter from Lourenco Moreno to King Manuel. 1 



[30 November 1513.] 



******* 

 Item — In the ships of the past year there went a good proportion 

 of cinnamon, and there is now going likewise in these ; and so I 

 hope in God there will go every year ; and, regarding this, let 

 your highness be easy, as I have more fear of your sending word 

 to me not to send so much than of being lacking, as your highness 

 did regarding ginger, of which you ordered me not to send you, 

 each year, more than two thousand quintals. 



Cherme 2 Marcar and his brothers, and Mamale Marcar and his 

 brothers, are leading merchants of Cochim, and chiefly Cherme 2 

 Marcar, who is head of them ; and these are the brokers for 

 furnishing cargo to the ships, and they bring all the cinnamon 

 from Ceylam and other merchandize and drugs, and also cloves and 

 mace, before Malaca was made, — of which nothing now comes 

 from there, — and they receive here many wrongs, which I cannot 

 make good to them 



1 Printed in Cartas hi. 380-406. The writer, one of the officials 

 at the Cochin factory, was, like Antonio Real (see C 12), an enemy of 

 Albuquerque's. 



2 Read " Cherine." These two merchants are frequently men- 

 tioned in the Cartas and in Barros, &c. (cf. supra, A 6). 



