_ 198 _ Our letters reached Lar, mine as well as the Governor’s and when news of them reched Camber Beg, who was building the fortress near ours, he hastened to make an agreement with Ormuz. Bu the time the letters arrived there the agreement had already been made, and so they were of no avail however favourable they might have been. Some days later, the King reached this city of Isfahan, and I after him. The prior of the convent informed me at once what was happening, which he had learnt a few days before from a merchant, because we have still not received a letter from Ormuz. I went straight to the King and complained on Your Majesty’s behalf about the offences which his vassals were committing every day against us, telling His Highness that he must forgive me but that I could not take any ambassador of his, nor did I wish for any favour from him, because Your Majesty was not a king against whose vassals offences could be committed; and asking him to give me leave to go because I could not remain in his kingdom. He was amazed at the freedom with which I spoke to him, and no less by the news of what had happened. He said that he was as innocent as I was, because if I had only known of it that day, he only knew of it through me. He was ready to give me all the satisfaction in his power, but said that I
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