_ 207 _ the tenor of the matters that were discussed during more than two hours(A). But the instructions of Lopo Soares allow us to suppose that the latter, after having thanked the Kolathiri for his loyalty, asked him to guarantee the price of spices at the rate at which they had been fixed by Vasco da Gama at the beginning of 1503(B). Two days after the arrival of Lopo Soares a river boat from Calicut brought two messengers to the factory. One of them was Muslim and accompanied a Portuguese cabin-boy who had been taken prisoner in 1503 at the time of the fighting in Cranganor(C). The cabin-boy told the commander-in-chief of the troubled situation prevailing in Calicut since the military defeats that Duarte Pacheco had inflicted on the royal army(D). The Samorin had taken Cannanore, 5.IX.1504, TdT, CC, II-9-2, published below, doc. 4 [not included in this translation]). (A) Three hours according to BM Anonymous, p. 119. (B) Regimento of Lopo Soares, CA, III, p. 191. According to Simão Botelho (Tombo do Estado da India, 1554, p. 28-29 in Subsidios para a história da India portuguesa, ed. R. J. de Lima Felner, Lisbon, 1868), Lopo Soares asked for and obtained the authorisation to build a fortress. The subject was perhaps broached but no firm agreement. was reached on this point before the intervention of D. Francisco de Almeida (cf. G. Bouchon, Mamale de Cannanore, p. 77-78). (C) Góis, I/93, p. 222. (D) BM Anonymous, p. 119; Castanheda, I/91, p. 194; Barros, I/7-9, P. 290; Góis, 1/96, p. 232.
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