_ 392 _ that Afonso de Albuquerque ordered was to send Afonso Lopes da Costa, Antonio do Campo and Joao da Nova to go with their men in the small boats to an outlying part of the city, and to make an effort to capture some Moors. This was with the aim of alarming those of the city, because at that time it had already been learnt from a Moor called Khwaja Ibrahim, great enemy of Khwala Attar how much the city wanted peace and hat Khwaja Attar was the only one who wanted war. It was for this reason that he had broken the wall in the king’s house. However as all the captains were against Afonso de Albuquerque’s opinion in this rapture, those he sent on that enterprise were so unwilling in their hearts that they did no more than scare the Moors away rather than do any other harm. The only thing they did in carrying out their task was to bring two old Moors, and they were moreover brought on their shoulders because of their great age as they had come on foot. Khwaja Attar saw the fire being kindled that the wanted, he being aware of how few men we had in the naos, and so that night he ordered fire to be put to a bring that Afonoso d’ Albuquerque had ordered to be built, and which had only three days before it would be launched. As it began to burn they heard shouts from the wall in the Portuguese language which said Afonso
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