55 to another governor - a man who had already held the post before and had kept the palace, fortress and city free. He told the governor to serve the King with great honour, and to let him govern his kingdom as he saw fit. And to only give him advice as governors do to other Moors’ kings. Thus, the captain of thefleet restored the King’s freedom and appointed Pêro de Albuquerque captain of our fortress, with many Portuguese and ships staying there to support the King. The latter did not do anything without hearing the advice of the said captain of the fortress, as he is a vassal of the King of Portugal, as is his whole kingdom an all his lands. Once the captain of the fleet had seen all this, with everything so calm and under his command, he sent round town-criers to announce the expulsion of all the sodomites and their families from the city and island (with an arrow through the nostrils of each one of them) and they were expelled and told that they should never return. If they would return, they were to be burned. The King was happy with this. Then he ordered that the blind kings who were in that city (who must have been thirteen or fourteen in number), be taken to a large carrack that was there and have them taken to India. There, they were placed in the city of Goa, where they would be fed at his expense, so that they could live out their days there and not cause any unrest in the kingdom. This would allow the King to live peacefully in Hormuz. The Kingdom of Dewal Heading further and leaving Hormuz and its lands behind, one immediately enters the kingdom of Dewal, which lies between Arabia and Persia and is a separate kingdom, reigned over by a Mouros king. Most of the people are Mouros and there are some gentiles, who are greatly suppressed by the former; the king is the overlord ruling over many lands and people throughout the interior, and has many horses, nevertheless he has very few seaports. On one side, this land borders the
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