_ 28 _ stand it, and at the request of Francisco de Tavora and Jorge Barreto and other nobles he was brought out and put in the forecastle, and later the irons were taken from him and he returned to his ship on surety, on condition that he did not leave the Captain-in-Chief without his permission. He was still very angry, complaining to the Captains that they had not helped him when he was arrested the Captain-in-Chief. The Captains had not dared to do so because they saw that the Captain-in-Chief realized that they had incited João da Nova to act, for in the quarrel the Captain-inChief said to him “João da Nova, may God forgive you for taking bad advice from: Joao da Nova, may God forgive you for taking bad advice from those who put you in the fire and stay away from it, and who make you a halter without you realizing it.” The Captains understood this and dare not speak, seeing the Captain-in-Chief so angry, but their hatred against him grew. When their fury over João da Nova’s imprisonment had died down and he had been freed from the irons, the Captains thought that it was cowardly not to mention it to the Captain-in-Chief, since he said that they were bad advisers. One day the Captain-in-Chief was telling them of news he had received that many soldiers had come to Kishm island to protect the water, and if this was true it would be necessary to go and throw them off the island.
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