_ 360 _ the port of Bandar Angkon. Twenty on habitual gratuities. Thirty-three leques on food for the slaves, male and female of past Kings. Five on his dancers, on the muleteers who preceded him when he rides one leque twelve azers. On his goldsmith stone leque and a half. On the drummers in the palace the same sum. On twelve vigilantes who work in rotation by night, and on their commandant six leques. On dyers fifty azers. On four porters one leque; on repairs to the masonry and plastering of his houses ten leques. On his mother for dresses another ten leques. For his own sustenance and that of his kinsmen one hundred and forty-four leques. Ten on five maidservants. On six nursemaids and persons who look after his children twenty-three leques. On salaries for his officials and nobles two hundred and fifty leques. On certain minor expenses five leques. Twentyfive to pay lacemakers. What remained after subtracting these expenses was put into the King’s treasury, and if it were not for a few concessions which were formerly made to his neighbors this kingdom would have had double this revenue, for the King of Persia at this time was Sheikh Ishmael. He, together with his wife, children and Ambassadors, whatever they put into and took out of Ormuz, paid no
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTg0NzAy