_ 35 _ He sent Pedr’ Alvares, a servant of the Conde de Villa Nova, who was in his favour, with letters to the Viceroy telling him what had happened and asking him to give the Captains who had fled fitting punishment for their affrontery in leaving their King’s flag in time of war and running away from their Captain-in-Chief; and after they had been punished then he might hear all the wrongs of which they accused him and he would endure the punishment that he truly merited. The next day, when the Captain-in-Chief was about to depart and he was giving the order for the anchor to be raised, there appeared on land signals were made from the land, and the Captain-in-Chief told Ayres de Souse and Gaspar Rodrigues the linguist to go to the shore, but without landing. They did so, and a Moor spoke to them saying that Khwaja Attar sent word to the Captain-inChief that he would do all he asked except give him the Portuguese, because they were already his brothers; and he asked him to send whatever answer he wished. When the skiff returned the Captain-in-Chief was angry with the message, because he saw it was a kind of mockery; and he sent word that what he wanted to do was to tell him to compete the fortress and maintain it once completed, because he assured him that if he lived he would return,
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