_ 76 _ enter the city, they could keep them safely, and so if the governor would disembark, he would still find everything he wished. Having said all this, Lourenco said nothing more after the governor had spoken to him. Then from the fleet they saw a stick placed upright in the ground at the water's edge, with a card attached to it. The Portuguese were mindful that it might be a notice, and some went to fetch it, and gave it to the governor who saw that it was from Salman Rex and written in Spanish. It said that he was departing for Cairo and wished them to know of his coming and allow him to leave. For a guest such as the governor some rest and repose were necessary. The inns were ready to receive him, yet he was going to depart without staying with them, and he would be interested to know the reason. The governor understood that Salman was bragging and trying to mock him. Sending a written reply, he said that he had gone to Aden and Kamaran to fight with him, losing two ships and a galley, and not finding him there he had come to these parts, carefully searching for him in the sea in order to show him his resolute will. But he had found him on land, not able to leave, he was therefore not going to fight him, but if he was going to stay
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