_ 107 _ will not make a mistake, I hold you prisoner on this ship and you will not leave it without my permission on pain of losing your surety, which is confiscated.” And he told the notary João Estão to draw up bond of surety and commanded João da Nova to go to the forecastle. He sent for Gomes Texeira, a respected knight, to go and take over João da Nova’s ship and be its Captain, and do with it as he commanded, but Gomes Texeira refused to accept because he was a friend of João da Nova and was of his company, which he much esteemed. The Captain-inChief said to him “Sir Gomes Texeira, in that ship, whom do you serve, João da Nova or the king? Since you serve the King, as we all do, and I am his Captain-in-Chief of this fleet, I command you to obey my order. And he handed him his warrant, so that all the men in the ship would obey him as Captain. He ordered that the boats of Antonio do Campo and Manuel Telles would go the quarry the next day, and told Alonso Lopes da Costa to go with his boat and men to guard the others. This was done without anyone refusing, and that day these two boats went and the next day those of Francisco de Tavora and João da Nova, with Dom Antonio in the Captain-in-Chief’s boat to guard them, and the next
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