{[F. 501]} Chapter XXIX1 On how His Majesty King Dom Phelippe wrote to the emperor of Ethiopia and later Pope Paul V did so, and what he replied

During the first monsoon after Emperor Seltân Çaguêd had acceded to his empire, I wrote to His Majesty about what had been happening in it and the current state of affairs and how the new emperor was a man of such good understanding and qualities that one could hope for a very good outcome regarding the reduction of {this} <his> empire. I explained that, as soon as he had taken office and business had permitted, he had listened to the matters of our holy faith with great attention and pleasure and showed fondness for them. His Majesty therefore decided to write to him, congratulating him on his accession to his empire, in order thereby to instil greater fondness in him and to ensure that he would maintain friendship and correspondence with him as his forefathers had had with the kings of Portugal, which is so important for what is intended that it would be virtually impossible ever to {effect it} <instil fondness> without it. A copy of the letter is as follows: