_ 435 _ one which is large sheet of paper folded like a book and very well decorated on the outside with damascene in ornate relief, and the letters written on them are very well executed in relief, with three seals at the end like those of bulls, one the King’s, one the governor’s and one the community’s, that is the city’s attached with three little gold chains. They also had a little silver casket made, where they put these documents with the privilege concerning the tribute. The document is written in Arabic, and another has been written in the Persian language on a sheet of paper painted in ultramarine blue and letters of gold, and similarly placed in another silver casket and sealed with the same seals as I have described. The gold document I shall send to the King [of Portugal] with three ambassadors, the 15,000 serafs of tribute and some jewels. I hope too to send the ship in which the ambassadors will travel laden with silk and rosary beads wrought in various ways and musk and lacquer and pearls of diverse value with various other small objects. I shall not give Your Highness an account of how the city of Chaidazar came under the control of our Lord the King, and gave us all the supplies we needed without payment; nor shall I give you an account of the destruction of the city of Choriate, which lasted three days
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