_ 328 _ The next day, Monday, after spending four days there, they departed with the camp and throughout the whole of the journey they were unable to resist the wives of Great Lords and Captains whom they were taking with them. There was nothing that they did not desire, though with the Ambassador they were not quite so much at ease. These women were amazingly white; they had the padded headdresses of Flemings, and on top of their taffeta shifts they wore French capes of brocade, velvet, satin, damask and scarlet cloth. That was how they arrived at three in the afternoon in the field where the camp was sited, near a town named Maragoa, three leagues from where they had set out. On Thursday, 7th September, the Sheikh arrived from the chase and the Ambassador enquired of the Governor if the Sheikh would dispatch him and when he wanted him to go and see him. The Governor replied, the following day if it was not a workday. The next day, which was Friday, 8th September, they went to the house of the Governor who gave them the reply to the mission as follows: If the King wanted his friendship, why had he ordered the city of Ormuz, which was his, to be taken? Every year it paid him two thousand xerafins in tribute. Words were no
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