_ 29 _ Sheikh, he would know that they had spoken the truth. Then the Captain-in-Chief sent Gaspar Rodrigues the linguist shore with one the Moors, and the sheikh received him very honourably and said to him much more than the Moors had said. While the linguist was ashore the Captainin-Chief talked with the Captains, and they agreed to make peace with the port and the town if they took the tribute in the form of provisions to Ormuz, rice, sugar, butter and dates, to the values of the five thousand xerafins that the town paid to the King of Ormuz. This was agreed, and when the Moor and the linguist came back with the message, the Captain-in-Chief told the Moor that he would safeguard the town and the port and agree perpetual peace with him and make him lord of that town for ever, him and his children and all their descendants, as long as they remained vassals of the King of Portugal, whose servant he was; but every year they must pay a tribute of as much as the town paid the King of Ormuz, in provisions or in xerafins. When the Moors heard this, they said that they would take the message to the sheikh, and they took their leave. But the Captain-in-Chief ordered that the ship’s mate should take them in the skiff and observe the shore and what the town was like. This he did, and took the Moors,
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