_ 119 _ Rais Nuruddin and the members of the council they agreed not to allow the fortress to be finished. He sent for the quartermaster, Pero Vaz d’ Orta, who was in the fortress, and through him sent word to the Captain-in-Chief that he knew that his Captains had asked him to do as the service of the King of Portugal required and that he, being a defiant man, did not wish to, and was building a fortress of his own will without an order from the King of Portugal, to hold it himself and to do harm to the city; and he would not go to Cape Guardafui, as the King ordered; and since he was doing what the King did not order, he could not allow any more work to be done on the fortress. When this message was given to the Captain-in-Chief he was very affronted and he exclaimed against the Captains, saying that they were the cause of the troubles that lay ahead, and that each of them should endeavor to lead a life that might redeem him in the King’s eyes, to whom he would tell the whole truth. He sent Gaspar Rodrigues the linguist to Khwaja Attar and told him to say that he was not building the fortress to do harm but to do good to the city, and to preserve it to serve the King or Ormuz, and that in sending word to him that he could not allow the fortress to be built, it was he who was seeking the destruction of
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