_ 78 _ responsible for guiding them in temporal and spiritual matters. As they were all very different from each other, they often quarreled and afterwards came me with various complaints against each other, to ask for justice, while some came with other problems. It is obvious that with such a variety of problems I did not know what to do. Sometimes I ended up as their friend, on other occasions, being unable to get rid of them I threatened them, and at other times I had them rested, both men and women alike, as Our Lord showed me. I tempered love with fear. I kept this arrangement with them: early in the morning I visited them, endeavouring to ascertain their needs and depending on what these were, to provide them, feeding the poor, who must have numbered 150. In the evening I gave them Christian instruction, taking care to combine it with that of men. With things continuing to this way, news came that the Mamluks had arrived in Ormuz and had surrounded the fort(A). The inhabitants of this fortress, who are Moors, (A) When the Turks had occupied the town of Muscat for eleven days, they brought up catapults against Ormuz and vainly attacked the fort for 16 days.
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