_ 333 _ On Thursday, 14th September, the Governor informed the Ambassador that, while the Ambassador that he wanted to send to India was making his preparations, the King would be very grateful if they would go to the city of Tabriz and wait for him. In the meanwhile, he would send a number of items that had been ordered by them there. Immediately after that he ordered them to send a sum of two hundred cruzados in the coinage of the country to the Ambassador, together with a short sword decorated with gold; a hundred cruzados to the Secretary, Gil Simões, a hundred to Francisco de Sousa and a hundred to the interpreter Gaspar Pires. The Governor ordered his factor to arrange for this money and plentiful provisions to be given them. The Sheikh’s envoy Ibrahim Beque, who as we mentioned earlier had brought them from Ormuz, had been delayed. Because of this and as the Portuguese had to send for horses, they all reached the camp together, with the Ambassador wanting to leave straight away. The latter informed the Sheikh about the grandeurs of Portugal and of the Captain General, who never wanted to meet Khwaja Gijan, his ambassador, who went first to Goa. Sheikh sent a message through the governor asking him to delay his departure, and because of what Ibrahim Beque told him,
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