_ 11 _ This was agreed, /858/ but João da Nova, who was longing to go to India, asked the Captain-in-Chief to send him with the provisions so that he could then go on to India. The Captain-in-Chief told him that he was very far from ordering any such thing, because his ship was the most powerful he had and intimidated the Moors most, and that since he was asking other ships to come, he begged him to be so good as to help him to complete this undertaking, which would not last long; and he was only sending Manuel Telles to go and come back. João da Noa showed himself much aggrieved by this, and told the Captain-in-Chief that he should not want to take advantage of men by force. The Captain-in-Chief told him not to get angry because some time he would be glad to have done the service he was doing there. The Manuel Telles took everything on board his ship, ready to go when he was ordered. The Captain-in-Chief commanded the Captains to sail round the island of Ormuz one behind the other, within sight of each other, and told Francisco de Tavora to take up station where the terradas bringing water usually came. He had with him four skiffs and his ship’s boat with berços, well-equipped for attacking the terradas, so that none would dare to come out. The Captain-in-Chief went
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