_ 500 _ the Commander'. He concludes his assessment with an example: I assure Your Highness that when he went to pray in the mosque on a Friday, he first sent for permission [...] This is acting as a wise man because he is already held to be King [...] of the Kingdom by the hand of Your Highness(A). When he proposed to the Shah of Persia an alliance against the Sultan of Egypt, Albuquerque added to the titles of the Portuguese monarch, after 'Lord of Guinea and of the conquest [...]', the name of the new possessions he had won: and of the kingdom and lordship of Ormuz and the kingdom and lordship of Goa(B). D. Francisco de Almeida's suggestion of 'emperor' was succeeded by the pragmatism of Governor Afonso de Albuquerque, a great 'lord' of the East. (A) See below, doc. II,fo.2v. (B) Crónica do descobrimento e conquista da Índia pelos Portugueses, cit., chap.95,p.105; Comentários de Afonso de Albuquerque, part] II, chap.XXIII; Cartas de Affonso Navigations and Peregrinations in Persia (1507-1524), Bethesda, Maryland 1970, pp. 13-17.
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