_ 137 _ so loudly that it seemed the heavens would come down, Afonso de Albuquerque could not imagine why such a change had taken place. Not even those who had been on land could tell him. He only knew that the man who came to warn them seemed to be the local governor because of the conversation they had with him when they were arranging a peace. What they could gather from the exchange of messages they had with him, as that more Moors had come to help those in Muscat that night. The people did not want the peace that the governor had agreed, and because of that they had attacked him. It also appeared that the governor was asking the commander in Chief and remember him. Afonso de Albuquerque later heard that on the night of his negotiation, certain captains of the King of Ormuz had arrived with two thousand Arabs to protect the town, and when they saw that peace had been agreed and that the governor as a tribute and given Afonso de Albuquerque two hundred sheep and four hundred sacks of rice and two hundred of dates, some of which were already in the naos, they began to insult the governor, calling him a castrated goat, a weakling a man who had easily given in although he had such a strong town which was well prepared to defend itself, having had so much help from their king.
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