_ 73 _ The captain said that since the Moors wished him ill and would misrepresent what he said, he asked him as a favour to have a Christian sent for who knew the Arabic of the Moors. The king answered that that was reasonable and at once summoned a young man, small in stature, called Quaram. The captain told the king that he had brought two letters, one written in his own language and the other in that of the Moors. The one that came in the language that he understood well, he considered acceptable. As he did not understand the other, it might be written well on the one hand, and on the other it might contain something wrong. As the Christian was unable to read Arabic, four Moors took the letter and read it among themselves, and then came to read it before the king. The king was pleased with the letter and asked the captain what products were to be found in his country. The captain replied that there was a lot of wheat, cloth, iron, bronze and many other things. The king asked him if he had brought any goods. He said that he had brought a little of everything as samples. He asked permission to go to the ships to bring them ashore, while four or five men would remain in the lodgings. The king refused. He said that he should leave, take all
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