_ 165 _ To confirm what he was saying and to agree a peace his king would send a delegation of the following day when both sides would be more rested and their hearts would be more at peace than they were at that moment. This would be so both for Afonso d’ Albuquerque as Commander in Chief happy in victory and for his own king, sad at not having accepted what Afonso d’ Albuquerque had offered on behalf of his sovereign whom he wished to know and serve. On that day pleasure and sadness could not find reconciliation. They were also so blinded that the conquerors would not know how to ask and the defeated would not know how to concede.Because Afonso d’ Albuquerque did not wish to destroy the city (though he could have done so) but wished rather to make it subject to his king as he had made clear, he answered that he was contented to contain the anger of his men but he warned them that if on the following day they did not keep their promise or respond to his request, them their city would be put to their promise or respond to his request, then their city would be put to fire because the Portuguese would not forgive a third time. There was nothing he punished more with more indignation than attempts to deceive with false promises. Due to his consideration for the king whom he had been
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