_ 229 _ When he arrived; an Arab whose name was Acem Ale went to welcome him in the king's name he said that the governor had come to his own home and gave him some dried fruit and things made of sugar. The governor told Acem Ale that if the king meant what he said he would treat him as his son for he had only come to Ormuz to look after its welfare. As the governor wished to prevent any armed reinforcements coming to the city, he ordered some of his captains to patrol the island; they were not to allow any ship to come to the island without first searching it, and if they found any soldiers aboard, they were to kill them. He also informed the king of this, so that he might spread the word, two days after he had arrived he ordered Nicolau Ferreira (who had been the King of Ormuz ambassador to the King of Portugal) to go to the king and give him the reply to the message he had taken to Portugal; a nephew of Raix Noradim stayed at the fleet as a hostage. The reply was contained in two letters in one of them the King of Portugal gave an answer to the petition made by Raix Safardim to the governor; the other concerned the Arab ounce hunter whom the king had sent to the pope with the ounce.
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