_ 55 _ scarlet hose and a short doublet of black velvet, covered with a scarlet gown, with a gilded sword leaning against his chair. He gave a gracious welcome to the Moor, who had been well instructed by Khwaja Attar as to what he should do and say. He said to the Captain-in-Chief “Sir, the pasha, the King of Ormuz, sends me so that you may tell him what you wish.” Not trusting the Moor to deliver the message that he gave, the Captain-in-Chief ordered the Moor to write it down and Gaspar Rodrigues to speak it, saying that he was the slave of the King of Portugal, the greatest king in the world because he was lord of all the sea over which he sent his ships and armadas, with which he had captured all India and was lord over the whole of it, and all who sailed the seas owed him obedience and paid him tribute and taxes. As the Captain-in-Chief of this fleet, he came to agree peace and friendship; but when he had gone to the town of Kalhat, without doing them any harm the people had scorned him and tried to seize his boats, at which a Captain had gone ashore with the ships’ boats and had done some damage, as he must now know. As he went on his way, the same had happened at Kuriyat and Muscat, and he had treated those towns as they deserved, because they were
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