The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 359 _ on the island called Turum Bagh, as he provides food for his hunting companions. On falcons, hawks and on hawkers, whom he maintains in Moghistan, nine leques. Two leques and four azars on a vegetable garden he has in a place called Broko. Fifteen leques which he spends on horses, and thirtysix leques for their fodder, and on the maintenance of pasture for them in the grassy season. One leque on horseshoes and one on bridles, harness and on ordinary saddles for the slaves who train the horses to use when riding. Fifteen leques on horses which he habitually gives to certain noblemen of Moghistan. Ten leques in gratuities for persons of his household; ten more for the widows of his officials, and five for other poor persons who beg at his gate. More considerable alms for priests and descendants of the prophet Muhammad, and further alms for the souls of the departed, twelve leques. Forty leques eighty-eight azars for the forty-six priests of his mosque, who are salaried. Three leques sixty azars to others who pray continually for his late father. To his Guazil and Governor, for five horses he has in his possession, fifty leques annual salary, and two for the water he uses in his house. For the purchase of slaves ten leques. Three leques on Ambassadors when they arrive at

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