_ 85 _ banners, and the ships were also dressed with flags. They set off towards the shore with trumpets sounding, and as they left the ships they all saluted with their guns. The Armenian was on the shore with Khwaja Attar and Rais Nuruddin, all in gala dress, with many people and musical instruments and celebrations, and many saddled horses. The Regents went down to the water’s edge and Jorge Barreto with the flag was carried shore by sailors, who put him on land with thirty men. Well-dressed noblemen landed from the other boats, and then they gave Jorge Barreto a fine and well- accounted horse to ride, and the Regents mounted, and horses were given to all the noblemen who accompanied the flag, and their boys with lances with pennants and their shields, and before them went the trumpets sounding, and all the people in front of them who more than filled the streets. So, they entered the main street of the city with Gasper Rodrigues the linguist leading the way and went to the great mosque of the King which was by the square, and there they turned towards the King’s palace, with so many of the people of the city that some of them suffocated. The King was in fine array, on a veranda which overlooked a large courtyard in the palace, where everyone dismounted and went up the stairs to where the King stood. He received
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