_ 102 _ All the Captains complained at length in their ships about the Captain-in-Chief, saying that in spite of everyone he wanted to build a fortress that the king had not ordered, it was of his own will that he earned it done. People would die of overwork, and when the fortress was built he would occupy it and make himself master of the city, and take as much money from it as he wanted; and that he had a hundred thousand xerafins safely guarded that the kind had given him which ought to be shared out among them all but he had kept them for himself, giving them the money the merchants has paid for the ships to keep them happy; but secretly he has a much again; and had received many bribes. They said so many of these things that they made the men angry and stirred them up with hatred against the Captain-in-Chief, swearing and promising that they would not set hand to the work until he head first given them their share of all the money he had, and agreeing that they must act in unison. So, all the men were turned against the Captain-in-Chief. Because the King had ordered the Captain-in-Chief to proceed with the fleet to Cape Guardafui, where they hoped to take many prizes, the Captain met together and made a written petition to the Captainin-Chief asking him to go first to the Straits, since the King ordered him to go there, and not do what the King had not
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