_ 43 _ palace and took it that the King had agreed to the arrest on account of the dispute between them. The result was that the Wazir and the kingdom of Bahrain, which paid forty thousand pardaus to the King of Ormuz every year, rebelled against him. The King of Ormuz soon learned of this and speaking as a vassal of the King of Portugal to whom he paid sixty thousand pardaus in tribute; he asked Nuno da Cunha, to restore Bahrain to his control, otherwise he would be forced to cut his own tribute by the forty thousand pardaus that he himself received from Bahrain, because he had no other means of raising them. Nuno da Cunha discussed this matter with Cristovão de Mendoça, the Portuguese commander in Ormuz, and the rest of the noblemen in the fleet, and different opinions were expressed. Some said that to go and build the fort in Diu, as the King had ordered, was more important than any other matter in the East and this could most easily be done now when the kingdom of Cambay was in such disarray after its defeat and the loss of its fleet (news of which had already reached Ormuz); and if Nuno da Cunha went to Bahrain himself, or sent somebody in his place, on the chance that things would go according to plan. They would be forced to linger in Ormuz and not set out quiet
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