ABSTRACT
As soon as the great Afonso Dalboquerque came up with Francisco de Tavora, as he understood how the seed prospered which Antonio do Campo had sown in the hearts of all the captains, he could not restrain himself from coming to an explanation with him, so he said: “Sir Francisco 158de Tavora, I recommend you more courtesy when you next come with me than you have to-day shown me. How? Must you leave me between two rocks in the land of the enemy, and go away alone, and without my permission? I know well what punishment it is that you deserve, but I put up with it all because I must needs do so.” Francisco de Tavora stood up on his feet, and, giving vent to oaths, said: “You shall not punish me, nor have you power to do so. Take your own vessel, and do as you like with it, for I promise you that if we set sail, I shall escape from you.” And more words of this nature he said, to which Afonso Dalboquerque would not reply, but ordered him to return to his own vessel; and being mercifully inclined towards him, he told him he was a poor man, and lately married, and ought not to consent to enter into conspiracies with the other captains, for he would ruin himself with the king, D. Manoel. Francisco de Tavora, in a fume, told him he was richer than he himself, and wanted nothing from the king; that he was well aware that he wished him ill, because of the remonstrance that he had made; and that he would quit Ormuz and make his own way to the Cape of Guardafum, to perform the instructions contained in the king’s order. Afonso Dalboquerque replied that he was much surprised at his saying that he wished him ill, because of the remonstrance made by them all, since he himself had announced to him that they were about to make it, and he had asked him if he would sign it, and he had replied, smiling, and without any emotion, that if what the other captains did pleased him, he would sign it. Francisco de Tavora, being ashamed at what was now retorted upon him, held his tongue, and made no reply; and, being now come to the shore, Afonso Dalboquerque took him with him on board his own vessel.
