_ 325 _ The Sheikh drank from a stone cup inlayed with gold that held half a canada and sometimes from a porcelain cup. He poured the wine personally and showed our people the cup each time he drank, saying that he alone drank more than all of them put together. The Ambassador suggested that the wine could be watered; at which, the Sheikh ordered him to be given the full porcelain cup for him to drink. In doing so, the Ambassador took three pauses for breath. The Sheikh then gave orders for the jar that he had before him to be given to his followers and, laughing with them, he ordered everything in sight to be given to the Ambassador. Through the King of Golim (?) he sent him a scarlet kerchief that he was wearing round his neck, covered in gold embroidery. and they were with him from ten in the morning till nightfall, when he ordered them to be clothed in woven silk and capes of brocade lined with satin. When they were dressed, they stayed with him from ten in the morning till nightfall, when he sent clothes for them to wear (sic), and when they were dressed, they stayed with him a while. In the meanwhile, they presented the Sheikh with a jar of Portuguese wine brought by Coleijan, an envoy whom Afonso de Albuquerque met in Goa. The former ordered it
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