_ 61 _ it were possible for me to pass my obligation on to you I would do so, not least because you would then sleep as little at night as I do. Since you see it all, I entreat you to incline your hearts to the service of the King to whom you are all obliged in this work, for am I no more than one man.” They answered “Sir, if all this is true and you can do things without labour, why do you look for it? Because if we had come here first the King would not have as much cause as he has to complain of the wrong we have done him in his ports.” The Captain-in-Chief said “We came to make war, not to plead. May it please God to give me wind to enter this port, and I hope with the help of Our Lord that these Moors will speak more to the point.” Then he called the Armenian and said to him “go and tell the King that I am very pleased that he wishes for peace and friendship with the King of Portugal because by so doing he protects his city and ports from the great harm that would befall them if he did not do so. For if he started a war so many ships would come, sent by the Viceroy of India, that everything would be destroyed, like the King of Calicut who in all his ports and city has not a single ship that sails. Since, being very wise, he desires his own profit and asks me what I wish, tell him that I only want what he
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