_ 331 _ honoured for it. When this letter is delivered to you, stop in Panjim and do not sail up the port until I send you a message that your reception has been made ready. I send you God’s blessing and my own. Saturday, 28 April 1548. You have the Franciscan father in your company, and, when you enter the city, you are to send him in front of you with a cross. D. João de Castro young, aggressive nobles and insisted on conquering the castle of Qishm by force of arms when the enemy would have yielded it to him under advantageous conditions. “The Governor,” he adds, “was very conscious of the mistake his son had made in being responsible for the death of so many men. The Governor well knew that this was talked about and greatly reviled in the city.” (Lendas, IV, p. 650). Was this really so? All considered, it seems to us that, if D. João had found his son’s conduct so mistaken, he would not have praised him in this manner.
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