_ 113 _ arrived, they told the Moors not to complain, because they had brought money with which to pay them. Khwaja Attar, being already incensed, replied very arrogantly and angrily that they should at once pay them a thousand xerafins and that if the Moors had been to tell him beforehand, he would not have allowed them to take the timber. The quartermaster was silent, but Gaspar Rodrigues could not bear to hear this and said to him “Khwaja Attar, it is ill said that you would not consent to them taking the timber. I will go back to the Captain-in-Chief and tell him what you say and that you order us to pay the Moors a thousand xerafins for the wood.” Khwaja Attar, with even greater anger, answered that he could not allow force to be used against the merchants, and he would defend them; and he was to tell the Captain-in-Chief what he said. So, the linguist went to the Captain-in-Chief and told him what had happened, and the Captain-in-Chief was furious, resenting Khwaja Attar’s arrogance, which was the result of his knowing that there was disagreement between himself and the Captains over the building of the fortress. Because of this change of attitude, which could be the cause of much harm on account of the mutinous Captains, he went to the work site to discover how things
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