_ 53 _ Viceroy had sent friendly letters to Khwaja Attar and had freed the captives taken in a just war, and in his letter had said words about himself which had given the Moors such satisfaction that they could now insult him as much as they liked because of the disfavor in which they all were. The Captains and everyone else were surprised at this and told the Captain-in-Chief that he would have little difficulty in putting all right when he saw the Viceroy, but that their opinion was that he should dissemble and temporize with the Moors and not fight them because they were so short of much that was necessary, and especially since he had a good pretext in the Viceroy’s letter. This was agreed by everyone, and for three days they did nothing, at the end of which the Moor signaled from the shore and the linguist went in the skiff. The Moor gave him a signed document from Khwaja Attar that said the King was not going to pay tribute to him nor to anyone else, even if the Viceroy ordered it; nor would he hand over his Moors that had been Christians, and other words of contempt, which made the Captain-in-Chief very angry that it had already been agreed that they would not fight. /881/ since they were short of water in the ships the Captain-in-Chief sent Dom Antonio in the brigantine to get water from Kishm island.
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