When Pero Dalboquerque had sailed away, the great Afonso Dalboquerque began to examine into certain irregularities which the king's officers were in the habit of doing in regard to the royal property, and reprimanded them for the careless manner in which they had attended to their charge; and, after having arranged every thing as it ought to be done, being aware that the Alguazil of Cananor was also in the habit of doing certain wrong things prejudicial to the service of the King of Portugal, and of speaking much that was ill of him, because he would not countenance his tyrannous and wicked conduct, and also because he (Afonso) was favourable to the old Alguazil, living in Calicut, whom, indeed, the present Alguazil had caused to be cast out of Cananor because of his adherence to our side, he summoned the new Alguazil before him, and gave him a golden chain, which hung round his own neck, saying, at the same time, that he would give it to him in spite of the many ill things that he was constantly saying of him; but as for the affairs which related to the service of the king his lord, he would beg him earnestly to carry them out in such a manner that the king's officers should make no more complaints of him, and also not to be sowing discord between the King of Cananor and the captain of the fortress, for if these matters were not set right it would be necessary to punish him with the rigour that his faults deserved; and he must remember, also, that he had been forgiven for his harsh conduct towards Pocaracem the Moor,1 in depriving him of his horses when he had no better excuse for so doing than thatPocaracem was on friendly terms with the Portuguese.