_ 292 _ stay on by becoming sick. But the Armenian and I went to a great deal of trouble with him; we were going to hire his beasts and take upon ourselves responsibility for the money which he had lost in an exchange-transaction, in order to pay the debts he had for he did not want to sell anything here, either; So that he was obliged to leave. In the caravan which was being assembled there were two or three Turks from among those who had come with us from Ormuz, and because of things that the Jews were saying and the fuss they were making, as has been mentioned they could not efface from their minds the preoccupation that it seemed to them that, because of the death of the mother superior, five or six thousand cruzados had remained, with which all three of us were going to become rich. They continually threatened us that, as soon as we entered the lands of the Turk, they would have us captured and everything we were carrying with us seized. This they could not do in the lands of Shah Tahmasp, because he did not seize the treasure of the dead as is the custom in the lands of the Turk, for he says that he received a sign to unite it with his own.
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