_ 75 _ and when we arrived the latter asked the Wali if he would arrange an almadia for us to go to our ships. He and the others said that it was already late (in fact the sun had set), so we should go the following day. The captain replied that if they would not provide him with one he would return to the king because he had given orders for him to return to his ships and they wanted to delay him. That was badly done as he was a Christian like them. When they saw that the captain was angry, they told him that he could go and that they would give him thirty almadias if that many were necessary. Then they took us along the beach and because the captain thought there was something wrong about it, he sent three men in advance and told them to find the ships longboats that his brother had hidden there. They left, found nothing and returned. We were taken to another cape but we could not find them. They then took us to the house of a Moor because it was already quite dark and when we arrived there, they said they wanted to go in search of the three men who had not yet returned. When they had left, the captain gave orders for a lot of chickens and plenty of rice to be bought, and we ate them, even though we were very tired from walking the whole of that day. The search party did not return till morning. [The captain commented that he thought that
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTg0NzAy