_ 36 _ and if Khwaja Attar were still alive he would need to be afraid, because if he did not find the fortress completed. It would be completed with the bones of the Moorish princes of Ormuz, and their ears nailed to its doors, and for the four Portuguese he would burn in this great mosque four thousand men and women and children; for the King of Portugal had never won anything that he later lost. And the city of Ormuz, and its King and counsellor would pay double tribute and the expenses of his fleet and of the one with which he would return. He ordered the linguist that when he had made this reply, he was to listen to nothing further and come back, which was done. The Afonso d’ Albuquerque set sail for the cape of Ras-el-Hed, but João da Nova did not want to go there and at night he separated from him and went his way, and when Afonso d’ Albuquerque found he was missing he was extremely angry that he should go away without a word. As he continued on his route and crossed / 872/ the Gulf to Socotra he took a rich ship that was on its way to Mecca, from which he seized some fine cloth and all its provisions and good slaves and set the ship on fire. He sailed on and reached Socotra, where they were suffering terribly from hunger, with all the soldiers ill
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