_ 31 _ ship, and returned to their own ships on surety, promising to do nothing except what he ordered. He commanded them that /869/ on pain of severe punishment and the traitor’s penalty they should have no speech with the land. All this redoubled their mortal hatred towards the Captain-in-Chief. Chapter: IX How Afonso da Costa, Antonio Lopes and Manuel Telles fled in their ships from the blockade of Ormuz in which they were engaged and went to India to complain to the Viceroy of the wrongs done them by Afonso de Albuquerque, and what he did after their departure, returning to Socotra. In the days which followed this disagreement, the Portuguese who were with the Moors spoke from the shore at night, sent by Khwaja Attar, saying “Ah sirs, Captains of the King and noblemen, how can you not see the great loss is suffered by the King of Portugal because the Captain-inChief will not accept all the money that the King of Ormuz is giving him, and in his obstinacy only wishes to destroy this city and lose sixteen thousand xerafins he pays every year! Why do you not do what you should do the serve the King of Portugal? The Captain-in-Chief heard this too and said.
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