_ 251 _ which he was well endowed to reveal itself; and greed and the desire to take everything for himself began to enter him. The Armenian and I perceived this clearly, but we dissimulated. It was not the right moment to tell him because little advantage would have resulted from doing so, for this was not a Christian land where justice could be done. Until the moment came when the caravan was ready to leave, he did not hasten himself at all and did not find camels for his loads, but conducted himself like a man who wanted to stay there. He was aware that, because of my haste to travel which he well knew, I would rather venture to lose everything than not do so. This would have been all right if I had been alone with the Armenian. For this reason I became desperate and lost my patience. One night, inside the caravanserai, we fell into such a hard exchange of words on this subject that I seized a large knife which I carried in my belt to kill him. He seized a dagger, and truly if I had not realised that this was a land of Moors, where everything could finally be lost, I would not have desisted from doing it, whatever the consequences for he said that he wanted to stay there and become a Moor. He did not give anything for my life, nor would he have failed to do it kill me for fear of death.
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