_ 151 _ kill him. To this he agreed. But after Sargol found himself settled as King of Ormuz, he blinded Shavez and put him in the house where all the other blind people were kept. God permitted that at the end of Sargol’s reign, which lasted for thirty years, having left no sons, they should make Saifuddin, the son of Shavez their King. Saifuddin was only twelve years old when Afonso d’ Albuquerque arrived there and Ormuz was thus governed by Khwaja Attar because of the services he had rendered his father. He was a very astute man albeit a eunuch who had been a slave of the King’s grandfather King Torun Shah. In these parts it is very common thing for kings to employ eunuchs and slaves with various nationalities. When they find them faithful and capable they always delegate the most important functions of government to them. The reason they do this is because they are tyrants. On the one hand they fear and do not want to make governors of the powerful men of the land incase they make themselves popular with the people and connive with them to make acts of treason. On the other hand they like to tyrannise the people at the hands of these slaves. They often then take away all the slave’s property and straight away give them their power back again so that they can rob them once more later on. They like eunuchs
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