_ 205 _ Furthermore, they were expecting a letter from the King of Portugal any day, in reply to an embassy sent to him by the former King of Ormuz it wouldn't be right not to wait for this reply, and when it arrived, they would do the King of Portugal's bidding. Pero de Albuquerque saw that this was only an excuse and did not wish to speak about it anymore. He asked for the tribute money, which amounted to 10,000 xerafins, and which they paid. During his stay there, he also sold some of the booty which he had captured during this voyage from the Arabs of Mecca, who were our enemies and had sailed without the governor's safe-conducts. Once this had been sold he found that they had yielded 35,000 xerafins; adding to this the tribute money, he had received a total of 45;000 xerafins. This sum did not take into account a ship loaded with a' cargo of white clothing, which was not sold, and when the time came, he took the money and sailed for India.
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