_ 164 _ While two or three of their naos were burning Khwaja Beirame together with another Moor got into a terrada and rowed through them waving a while flag, as if wishing to pass some message. Afonso de Albuquerque sent Nuno Vaz Castelho Branco in a fusta with Gaspar Fires as interpreter to find out what he wanted. But the other Moor who was with Khwaja Beirame was from Granada and knew Spanish well. He came as interpreter. As he approached Nuno Vaz he spoke so fluently that our interpreter was not needed. When they were brought to Afonso de Albuquerque, among the many things they said to please and to flatter him on his victory, the main message was that his king and Khwaja Attar asked him to stop his attack and his orders to have the environs and the naos in the shipyard there to be burnt. He pleaded that he be satisfied that he had already caused the death of so many people, the loss of so many naos and property as a result of his king having filed to accept his friendship. All further damage that he ordered he could be sure that he was inflicting on the King of Portugal himself because his king and the whole of his kingdom was at his service. From that day onwards his king would submit his estate to all the conditions which Afonso de Albuquerque demanded in the name of that great prince his king.
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