_ 224 _ over [Meale] Khan to him if he gave him a further fifty thousand gold pardaus. With this in mind he sent two ambassadors to the Adil Khan, Krishna, the Tanadar Mor of sales tax in Goa and Galvão Viegas(A). At this point I arrived in Goa and learnt that they had gone on this business. A few days later, when they had learnt of my arrival, I received letters from them in which they explained to me the purpose of their embassy. This matter seemed to me of much greater importance than it was held to be, and I therefore summoned all the captains and noblemen in India and Your Highness's officials and put the matter to them, showing them a petition made to me by [Meale] Khan which asked me to attend to justice for him and that I should see how discredited Your Highness's name would be in these parts if he were sold to the Adil Khan; he had been summoned by us to be King and had been convinced that he was safe in our hands, having been given an assurance in Your Highness's name. (A) Galvão Viegas, a casado of Goa, an important person and alcaide-mor, spent a bad period of time as a result of this mission. The Adil Khan, irritated by Martim Afonso's procrastination in concluding the negotiation by insisting on the payment of 50,000 pardaus in advance of handing over [Meale], took the ambassador prisoner together with his nephew, António Viegas and two Portuguese servants. Correia says that they suffered an "arduous captivity".
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