_ 64 _ Then the King sent the Armenian to the Captainin-Chief saying that he must have a few days to discuss with his counsellors so important a matter as becoming a tributary for ever to another King, which his predecessors had never done. Since they had agreed in friendship, he could safely send men ashore to buy what they needed. When the Captain-in-Chief heard the message he at once told the Captains that it was false, that the message was to delay and to test their will, because the King had his counsellors with him already and from the first day that they arrived they had agreed what to do, so they should waste no time over this. While the Captain-in-Chief was talking to the Captains the Armenian was in the pilot’s cabin so that, knowing our language, he should not hear what was being said. The Captain-in-Chief said that would be a good idea to send someone to spy and see what was in the city so as to have a better idea of what they must do. So, he told one Duarte Ligeiro to go shore and buy fresh food, and warned him to keep with a man that the Armenian would provide for him so that they could go through the whole city and see everything, and then he could tell him about it. Then he told the Armenian to tell the King that he was content to wait, as he said, but that his word should be that
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