_ 138 _ hundred ducats, and also many other things of great price, as I have said, and besides these a horn of the unicorn, one of the three which this Seigniory possesses, after this, he presented him with fifteen thousand ducats in gold as the tribute of Chipre which they were owing him; in this way the Turk remained well pleased and very joyous with his embassy, and he declared to the Ambassador that it was not his purpose the taking of Modon. Because very likely those galleys and foists taken by Modon had an encounter with him, and they would have at once apprehended him, and taken all he brought, and that it was a better fate for him to have taken Modon; the said ambassador returned him many thanks for such words to the Turk, and bade him goodbye, and before he left his presence, he made the Patriarch of Quillea [?] kiss the hand of the Turk; the Patriarch is the brother of the present Cardinal Grimano the Venetian, who went to Jerusalem, and from thence to Constantinople, a thing that had never been heard of before, that a bishop or Patriarch should proceed to kiss the hands of the Turk. This ambassador also presented Embraym Bassa and the sons of the Turk with many jewels, and other trinkets of value, in such sort that these up to the present, have
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