Azurara's credibility as a narrator is both unquestioned and unquestionable, for his position enabled him to get at the truth, and he took pains to record nothing but the truth, thereby proving himself a genuine disciple of his master, Fernão Lopes. He was moved, as a rule, neither by human respect nor by petty jealousies, and accuracy seems with him to have amounted to a passion.[81] So truthful was he that he preferred to leave the relation of facts incomplete rather than tell of them without having received exact information from eye-witnesses. He was quite conscious of what he calls his "want of polish and small knowledge", and his humility is shown by the declaration that he only regarded the _Chronica de Guiné_ as material for some future historian who would perpetuate the great deeds of D. Henrique in "a loftier and clearer style".[82] [Footnote 81: Many passages from his Chronicles might be cited to prove this, but the following will suffice: _Chronica de Ceuta_, chs. 1, 2, 12, 51, 83, 91, and 95; _Chronica de Guiné_, ch. 30; _Chronica de D. Pedro de Menezes_, ch. 1, and Bk. II, ch. 18; _Chronica de D. Duarte de Menezes_, chs. 2 and 60.] [Footnote 82: _Chronica de Guiné_, ch. 6.] His attitude towards the Moors, those hereditary enemies of Portugal, was only what we should expect, for, while he is strictly impartial in distributing praise and blame to them equally with Christians, he leaves us in no doubt on which side his sympathies lay. In the _Chronica de Guiné_, for example, after descanting on the universal praise of the Infant's life and work, he admits that a discordant note in the general chorus was struck by the Moors whom the Prince had warred with and slain, or, to quote his own words, "Some other voices, very contrary to those I have until now described, sounded in my ears, for which I should have felt a great pity, had I not seen them to come from men outside our Law".[83] [Footnote 83: _Ibid._, ch. 2.]