_ 80 _ I asked them to take my daughter, to leave her as token proof that I would pay. At daybreak, I went to see the Guazil immediately. As soon as I was sighted, they began to beat the drum and shoot arrows at me but when they found out that I was Portuguese and who I was, they stopped. Dom Manuel de Lima had already written to them and many had given them news of me in Kalhat. Therefore, he immediately ordered the Captain-Major to go to Masirah. He wrote to all along the coast about my disastrous adventure. Since Dom Manuel already had the information, he asked me that I wanted and said that he would give me all the money I needed straight away; and that he would strip the persons of his wife and his daughters so that I would have everything ready. I told him that I would write to Your Lordship about what a loyal vassal the high and mighty King, our Lord, has in him. I asked him to send some refreshment to the pirate who requested it from Your Lordship. I told him that as long as the arrangement was…… there should be no reprisals. He said yes. We went to the fortress and to the city of Kuriyat to negotiate the money. This Lord did, indeed strip the persons of his daughters and wife; and all the natives in the land willingly helped me.
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