_ 78 _ fleeing to the mountains, and Afonso Lopes wanted to follow them but the Captain-in-Chief would not let him. After resting a while, the Captain-in-Chief divided the men into three companies, spread out so it would look as though there were many of them. They slowly scoured the countryside while the boats went along the shore, so that the Moors really thought that the Captain-in-Chief was coming to enter the city and were very afraid and each one went to his house to save his money and flee with his wives and children. When the King was told of this he asked Khwaja Attar, who was with him, and Rais Nuruddin to help. Khwaja Attar said to him “Sir, ask those to help defend the city who told you that Khwaja Attar’s advice was that on an old fool, and prevented you from making peace, for now you see what great harm has been done to you.” The Captain of the ship Meril arrived, and the merchants from the other ships, calling on the King to agree and make peace before worse befell, for they knew that if he did not their ships would burned. Then the King asked Khwaja Attar as a father, to find a remedy. Khwaja Attar called the Armenian and gave him a signet ring with the name of the King and ordered that a white flag should
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