_ 125 _ that you will not fight where your Captain-in-Chief fights, in whose power and obedience the king our master placed to because this can make you guilty of treason.” Francisco de Tavora, who had returned to his ship, said that he did not say such a thing, but that he obeyed what he ordered. João da Nova said that he stood by the Captains’ reasoning and it seemed to him good to avoid the war. The Captain-in-Chief said to him, “You were the first to advise me to make war.” And he ordered João Estão, whom he had brought with him for the purpose, to write down everything, and he returned to his ship. Each of the Captains talked to the soldiers in his ship to see if they agreed with them, and they all found the men as they wanted. Nevertheless, taking counsel, they realized the error they made in the substance of the writing they had sent, so they sent work to the Captain-in-Chief by Fernão Soares, that they were in an angry mood when they sent him the letter, and that they were all ready to do as he commanded both in peace and war and they would obey him in everything. When the Captain-in-Chief heard the message, as he very much wanted to go to war over the renegade Portuguese whom Khwaja Attar would not hand over him, he wanted to know in person if the message brought by
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