_ 507 _ two or three people, whom prester instructs to come and attend the Council. If and when there is any difficulty with the safe-conduct, there will be some way of following the said route, using Abyssinia Christians, and travelling the same road as those whom Prester orders to journey to Jerusalem dressed as pilgrims, because they will have no difficulty in embarking in Alexandria to come here. His Holiness entrusted other matters to the above mentioned cardinal and to me. We were, then, to arrange the necessary brief’s and he instructed the secretary to confer with us and comply with the orders we gave him. It seemed to me that His Highness should compose a long document for the said Prester, with a lengthy account of the reasons which moved him to write to him, and which induced him to invite him to send someone to the Council, as all the Christian princes do, exhorting him to do this with well-reasoned arguments and authorities, and persuading him of the benefits that could accrue to him from doing so. The papal letter is long and is still being examined and re-examined and it will also be copied in Chaldean so as to be better understood in Abyssinia. It will also go
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