_ 160 _ for taking the letters was thus - I your servant being in Caleule there came also a servitor of the Algoazyr of Ormuz whom they call Cujas Adim, and on entering Caleate he happened to enter the dwelling of my father, and in the course of conversation began to tell us that he had come to and fro with a message of the Algoasyr of Ormuz to the Raiz Coleimao rume [sic] for him to come to the relief of Ormuz and I your servitor and my father. As soon as we heard this we felt considerable anxiety, and considering what we should do to prevent his departure, (this went on for a few days,) and during this interval there came a honoured man, who is writing to you what passed out here, and he told me, how that Celjas Adim had come before him and had told him that he carried some letters of the Algoazyr for the Raiz Coleimao, and asked me if we should wish to write similarly. We told him we could not write until we should be shown the letters he carried and that we would read them, and that by him we should write similarly to this he assented, and he want to fetch the letters, and as soon as he brought them we bade him leave us and to return in the morning when we should give him the letters ready and when we had read them we never again gave them up so that he should have a plea for departing, and we kept them
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