_ 122 _ captives were in their ships. They all said it would be a good thing to do, and they would give a hundred captives for one Portuguese, and more for these who were already perverted by the Moors; and he should make concessions to Khwaja Attar, and if he failed and did not hand over the Portuguese, on this point they should make war. The Captain-in-Chief did this, sending many messages to Khwaja Attar, and ordered eighty captives to be handed over to him while Khwaja Attar told lies day after day and would not hand over the Portuguese. After discussion they decided to remove the trading post they had on land, and all the men. When Khwaja Attar saw this he sent a message to the Captain-in-Chief in the name of the King, saying that he was very sorry to see the trading post was being removed, which seemed to mean that he wanted to break the peace and do harm. The Captain-in-Chief replied that there should not be a trading post of the King on land because Khwaja Attar was cheating him and using insulting words and had sent word that he was not to build the fortress, which did not matter, and that because they were not keeping faith he did not want to build a fortress nor keep their friendship but to harm and destroy the city. If Khwaja Attar did not want to hand over four ship’s boys who had run away, he
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