_ 42 _ (wounded knights have returned from battle and said to Afonso de Albuquerque “You inflicted this arrow wound on me” or “You killed me”). He also came to Cannanore to ask the king to lend him money or, as I believe, claimed it as a tax thereby turning the King against you. He seems completely unaware that the King of Cannanore would rather give us caterpillars than even one real, and finally he killed a guazil, one of your fine men, simply because he was our friend and a frequent visitor to the castle. Summary of pp. 769-773 Alonso de Albuquerque sent a request to the King of Cochin for him to assist Goa in its defence with some of his Noirs, but the King did not attend to this, nor ought he to have done, because it is against their custom for them to go out to sea. Antonio Real was left by Albuquerque as captain here [i.e. of Cochin), which was a most agreeable appointment, for God has denied him his due hitherto. However, it was subject to certain petty conditions, and Albuquerque s governorship has come to be regarded with great contempt. One night a slave fled from the castle, there being few men there, and he went out from the castle without saying
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