_ 65 _ of a King, without falsehood, so that it would prove good and not bad. As for sending his men ashore, there was no need because they were used to being always at sea except when they went out to fight, and they were not bored save when they had nothing to do. Nor did he want to buy food because there was plenty in the ships, but he would send one man to buy green stuff. He begged him to make up his mind soon because he wanted to leave, as he had things to do in other places. Then he entrusted the buyer to the Armenian, who would send him with a servant to go through the city making purchases and show him how to buy. The Armenian went to the King and gave him the Captain-inChief’s message, and as the buyer went with him, Khwaja Attar told him to enter and then asked him if he had to buy much. He said he only had to buy for the four hundred men in the flagship, and that buyers would come from the other ships. He asked him what he had to buy, and he said fruit and green stuff, and for all the rest the ships were full of food that they would have to sell before they left. The Armenian sent a servant with him, and they went to the bazaar. Which is a square, but he did not take him through the city. In the evening he returned to the ship with an almadia and told the Captain-in-Chief what had happened, and that he found the Moors proud, and all
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