_ 290 _ This would also affect other private interested parties who took from the fleets. He placed as a priority his own gain above universal well-being, as do all, and replied that it did not serve the purpose of the king and the security of the fortress to have those people living so close by. There was no lack of those who, for better reasons, would approve of handing them the island which they had requested, since they would thus be contained as though in a cage where, fearing that they would more easily be punished, they would not dare to cause any trouble, for thus they would not be given the opportunity to join up with the other robbers, or to go and live in some place where they would have no cause to fear Portuguese arms. In the end, since the Niquelus gave up hope of getting what they desired, obtained from the King of Lar (who is a minor king on the edge of the sea on the Persian side) consent to their settling on a deserted sandy beach less than a day’s journey from the king’s city and forty leagues from Ormuz. When they had erected their huts on the sand, they realized that it was extremely good both for trade and for fishing, since it lay between Ormuz and the other island of Bahrain and was on the route to other lands and landing points of Basra and those places through which the terradas and other vessels must pass. It was ideal not only for pearl
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