_ 123 _ should mind what he did, because he knew that he would come off worse in a war. At this point, as the Captains wanted to go against the Captain-in-Chief, although they had told him that he should make war if the Portuguese were not handed over to him, seeing that he was very eager and ready to do so they wanted to ensure that if anything went wrong with the war it should be laid at his door. They agreed to prevent him making war, because with no war and the country so roused that it could not be pacified again there would be nothing for it but to go to India, which they wanted above all else so that each could seek his own profit and load his own quintals. This was the chief reason they had stirred up and roused the whole flee to mutiny. Having consulted among themselves, they sent a letter to the Captain-in-Chief signed by them all, in which they told him to be wary about what new trouble he was getting into in wanting to break the peace and agreement he had made in Ormuz and throw away the fifteen thousand xerafins a year that Ormuz was paying; they reminded him of this they said, not as advice, because he never took it, and they put it in writing because he was strong in anger; “we all thought it would be well to remind you of this, so as not to risk losing this great gain; and in order
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