The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 327 _ trout, with both domesticated and wild ducks to the Ambassador. One Friday, he gave orders for the camp to be moved four leagues further on and the Governor informed them that they should go there, but in those four leagues they could not find where the head or the tail of the column of people from the camp was, because the roads and the surrounding mountains were covered with them. They left in the morning and arrived in the other camp at two in the afternoon, where, on his instructions, they set up two tents next to the Governor. The following day, the Ambassador sent a message to the Governor saying that, apart from the letter that he had given to the King, he had several things to tell him. The Governor told him to go there and in some secluded tents with the Guazil of the King and a scrivener, he told him everything and wrote everything down to send to the Sheikh who was spending several days there on a hunting trip. So, the Governor left to meet the King and as he was leaving, he was given a message to move camp. Since he was going on a journey, he left someone to arrange the move, and he ordered thirty horsemen to accompany the Ambassador. They were to mingle with the women, according to Sheikh Ismael’s instructions.

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