_ 21 _ he wanted, and they should not make war and destroy the city, which belonged to the King of Portugal, to whom it paid fifteen thousand xerafins a year, and would pay in advance as many years as he asked. He said that the Captain-in-Chief only wanted to destroy and lay waste everything; and he was making this known so that they could be witnesses. Although this was reported to the Captains, they did not inform the Captain-in-Chief about it, nor did the Captain-in-Chief tell them that he knew about it. But they talked of it among themselves, saying that if something disastrous happened, it was an occasion to hold against the Captain-in-Chief. And he, although he knew everything, pretended not to, because it was not the moment to confront them. There was a shortage of water in the fleet, so the Captain-in-Chief sent word to Antonio do Campo that he should go to the port of Naband, a place from which water was brought to Ormuz, and he should endeavor to load the vessel with water by paying them the money they asked for it rather than in any other way. He sent the quartermaster Pero Vaz d’ Orta with him to buy the water. /864/ When they reached Kishm island they went to the port, and asking about water it was refused him by a captain of the King of Ormuz, who was there with some
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