_ 116 _ them to desist from such things, that it did much harm to the King’s cause and service and to their own honour, and to the obligation they had towards him, their Captain-inChief. And they should be careful, because Khwaja Attar knew all about it and was already angry and arrogant, and they should beware what they did because those who did wrong would have to account for it to God and to the King. When the Captains saw that the Captain-in-Chief had torn up their petition they did not want to hear what João Estão had to say, and they responded with many words against Captain-in-Chief, saying that he was a false traitor, that he wanted to build the fortress to occupy it himself and rob the city, and to load his ship with stolen goods and go off wherever he wanted. These words and other worse each of them said in his ship to his men, to make them indignant with the Captain-in-Chief, saying that he was a tyrant, that he did not want to give the men their share of the hundred thousand xerafins, and because they asked him for them he was angry. Moreover, they had sent him a petition to pay the men what he owed them, for the men were poor, but for this he had torn up the petition, as everyone knew. They said so many things against the Captain-in-Chief, and roused the men against him so that they all said that they would
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