_ 121 _ As for the reply that he should send the ambassador of Shah Ismael, he sent twelve cannon balls and two fire-sticks for him to send to the ambassador with the message that the King of Ormuz was the King of Portugal’s man and that his Captain-in-Chief, who was in the city with a fleet, would pay the tribute if he wished, and if he wanted it he must come and get it. Khwaja Attar was very pleased with this answer, and so he sent him his own message and the ambassador went away. The Captain-in-Chief thought that everything was now at peace and he sent a message to Khwaja Attar that he asked him as a friend to return the four men who had escaped to him, so that they could by punished for the wrong they had done. Khwaja Attar sent to tell him that he did not have them, they had gone to the mainland, but that he would order them to be sent to him bound hand and foot, because he wanted to do all he could to please him. But he informed him that there was a great outcry among the people of the city about the captives that our men held in the fleet, and he begged that he would return them so that he could show that he was obliged to return the Portuguese. The Captain-in-Chief, very eager to have the Portuguese in his hands discussed this with the Captains because the
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