_ 425 _ with great consideration and courtesy, as he will confirm. This is how it happened. He preferred to spread malicious rumors and to make arrangements to leave. The crew of his nau gave him their support. However, in matters that closely concern the King’s service, it is not fitting to hide anything but to make them abundantly clear, so I ordered the captains to be with me to Ormuz. They all said I should take 20 ships if I had them there.(A) So I took the nau and delivered the document concerning his imprisonment to Ormuz. They all said I should take 20 ships if I had them there. So I took the nau and delivered the document concerning his imprisonment to Joao da Nova, saying that he should follow my route. He handed it back to me signed with his mark, and I commanded the officers of the nau, master, pilot and scribe to do likewise. On receiving these words and advice, Senhor Joao da Nova said some rude things to me. I put up with them from him because he had also served the King – for whom everything must be endured – so well in my company. (A) “….the captains told him that as Albuquerque’s intention was to go to Ormuz ad to destroy all the places on the way that would not subject themselves to the King of Portugal all the twenty naus that he had there should do with him. The “Flor de la Mar” did not Join him in this” (Commentarious do grand Afonso de Albuquerque part I ch 27).
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