_ 206 _ Although he wanted me to act as his executor, together with the Turk, and begged me a great deal to do so, I did not want to accept, because I was afraid the other would do the same to me. Nor did I want to consent to my other companion, Galeaço, doing so, for he never wanted only us to do it, but we always had to do it together with the Turk. For this reason Khwaja Bairam became his executor and absolute master of everything, and he immediately took charge of all the goods and money, and he also made Moors of two female slaves he Joao Jorge was taking with him, changed their names; and he did the same to a male slave, and freed them all. The captain of the caravan did not want him to be buried until the captain of the castle came, and he was immediately sent for, and once he had given permission, I had a grave dug for him by two Armenians in the caravan. No Moor or Turk, nor the heirs to his property, would place a hand on him, so I, with the help of the Venetian, placed him in a shroud, and we went to bury him that night. The captain of the castle had wished to send all his property to Ormuz, as it belonged to a Christian, and I went secretly to ask him to, because he had died in his the King of Ormuz’s domain, but for a hundred larins which the Turks gave him each one is worth four vintens he failed to
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