ABSTRACT

Antonio de Sintra delivered this message, and told his master that if it were necessary to fasten up all those documents again, he would do so in such a manner that they would seem as though they had never been opened. Afonso Dalboquerque said to him :—<( If this is so, then, Antonio de Sintra, it is not the first time you have done such a thing; I am not the kind of man to fasten up again the powers and diplomas of the King, whereby ho orders me to

also, he gave him an account of the state in which he then was; to this one never yet had he seen any reply, nor had he assisted him, as he was obliged to do by virtue of his position as" Captain-Greneral of the Indies; but, on the contrary, he had seen his (the Viceroy's) letters to the King and Cogeatar, making use of very dishonourable expressions respecting his own person, holding his labours as of little value, extolling the actions of the captains, and stating his good reception of them.