_ 322 _ a cubit high, with cushions on which he was seated. In front of him was a water-tank swimming with trout, flanked by many camp tents carpeted with brocade. On the Sheikh’s right hand was the King of Golim, a man of sixty, to whom the Sheikh showed great respect; next to him the captain of the guard, a brother of Chicolan, Sheikh Ismael’s Governor, who was on the frontier against the Turk; on the left, Dormiscan, King of Lorens, and the Ambassador of the King of Georgia, with two other Captains. The Ambassador kissed the letter of Afonso de Albuquerque that he was carrying and gave it to the Sheikh, who told him to be seated on his right hand with all his men, in front of the King of Golim and the captain of the guard. There were thirty thousand people throughout the camp and when they were seated the Sheikh asked the Ambassador his name and that of all his men. Of all those who were there, only the Sheikh managed to pronounce the name of the Ambassador, so the Governor ordered that from thenceforth he should not be called anything but Fernão Gomes de Lemos. Then the Sheikh asked the Ambassador about the Pope, if he was alive. He answered him that he did not know, because he had spent many years in India, and that when one died, they immediately appointed another, so that
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