_ 184 _ your port. Later, we again wrote to you, through a merchant from Cannanore, and we likewise sent word to Caizar, a merchant from Baticala, that he should write to you. Last year, we wrote to you in our letter, taken by a Moorish pilot, a native of your country, who was a captive of ours. In short, we have never seen a reply from you nor do we know if any of our missives were delivered. Now some three months later, we were given a letter from Captain Afonso de Albuquerque, in which he informed us that you are a vassal of my Lord the King, and that you pay him tributes, and that you have made an agreement of absolute friendship. This gives us great satisfaction. We are immediately ordering the release of some Moors who were our captives, as you will learn from them. Four captains, who were in India with Afonso de Albuquerque, have just arrived. They told us that war had just broken out between you and him, but that everything was his fault. We are extremely annoyed about this. The said captains came to seek us out because of this situation and to complain about him. They no longer wanted to help him against you. Consequently, they were very well received by us. Thus, we have ordered him to be summoned to justify his actions. We shall punish him for this as his guilt
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