_ 124 _ each place, because they realised that we were afraid and wanted to travel quickly. This was apart from their hire, which was six cruzados per load. I did this willingly to keep clear of the Turks, for, if they had recognised me for a Portuguese, I should have been doomed without hope. I travelled in the clothes of a Venetian and presented myself as such even to the muleteers. We left here on 30 December. With all the complications at the caravanserai, the guards and the gatemen at the gates of the city, we could not get away until midday.. We left and put up at a place half a league from the city called [Alipomat], because the journey was long and there was little left of the day. This was not like the lands of Shah Tamás, where every kind of man has total peace of mind and liberty when arriving at or leaving the cities, with no kind of dues, bullying or harassment. [Alipomat] means fountain of Ali, because there is a copious fountain there which they say was made by Ali, their prophet. One of the Turks’s captains called Mustapha Pasha captured Kara Amid from Shah Ishmael. The revenues of the place were used as alms by his father, Shamid Pasha of the fortress of [Lasá], five
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