_ 433 _ ships. We found a lot of money on those bodies, and swords inlaid with gold and silver and jewels, and may noblemen, counts and gentlemen. The fishing from our boats lasted eight days, and many of our men acquired from it many things found on these dead bodies. And the enemy left ten or twelve ships for us if we needed them, in other words one galleon for each of our ships. The two men who came to see me, as I mentioned above, told me that the King and Choichatar wanted to surrender to me now that I had won the city and towns of the kingdom of Ormuz; that God now wanted to give me the city and that if I wanted to take it peacefully, I could give the government of the kingdom to whoever I wished. They reply I gave him would take a long time to tell. I shall leave it for another time, and will write in more detail when I have more space to tell that happened. For now, I want to advise you how things seem to me, since I do not know whether they will come to Your Highness’ notice otherwise. I asked the emissaries only for ten men from among the leaders of the city, but since all the people had fled, they sent me only four, and with them I began to draw up to a peace treaty on the following terms; that the whole of the kingdom would surrender to me, and that I would take the office of governor, and so it was done.
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