_ 167 _ Chapter: IV How King Saifuddin of Ormuz agreed a peace with Afonso d’ Albuquerque making himself a vassal of King Don Manuel, with a tribute of fifteen thousand xerafins. How this peace was broken and the cause of this. As we have said, the King of Ormuz was a little over twelve years old. Because he was so young and also because he lived under the tyranny of Khwaja Attar he had neither the freedom nor the courage to discuss things with anyone. Nor had anyone else dared to do it for Khwaja Attar was so jealous of his power that both the king and his vassals lived in fear of him. This was especially so after Khwaja Attar in the name of defending the city had brought to it many of his Persian and Arab friends. On that day of battle his friends had all survived and were well and there had been the natives of the city, those who had defended their wealth, women and children, who had lost their lives. With so many dead the whole city was in tears as there was not a single household where a father, son, husband or brother had not died. In the pursuit of his ambitions Khwaja Attar was always proud and harsh. However, seeing such wailing and continual clamour he feared that if Afonso d’ Albuquerque
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