_ 221 _ I caused her to make an inventory in public of a load of nutmeg, half a load of pepper, and other goods, altar furniture and church ornaments which she was also taking with her, in the presence of all the Turks and Moors in the caravan, and made her say and declare in their presence that she neither possessed nor was carrying anything other than that, that she left us three as her executors, who were to take the alms to Jerusalem, where she had been taking them herself. As a further pretence I gave this document to an important Turk in the caravan, called Khwaja Rabadao, to keep. This caused a rumour, already circulating in the caravan to be quietened. It had been invented by three Jews who were travelling with it the caravan, the worst thing I have ever seen in my life, to the effect that the Mother Superior was carrying five or six thousand cruzados in jewellery, that they knew this perfectly well, and had heard of it many times, that the best thing to do would be to take us prisoner and hand us over to the Turk, or we would consume it all ourselves. I wrote about all this to the Captain of Ormuz, as also about the many other heresies which were spoken against our Holy Catholic faith, rudeness to the Mother Superior and shameful words. I asked him for two people
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