_ 167 _ upon us, which is uncalculable, that even to a certain cujo Qyntyo Gogaraty they give power over us, and holds the knife to our necks, and to this state has our luck reached that a fitting renegade should govern and command us, and such is the life that I, Xarafo Adim pass among them, and whenever it pleases them. They apprehend me and take me with a chain around my neck to prison and I know not whether you judge this a suffering, for I now hold it as nothing, and also all other evils they have wrought upon us which passed beyond all evil, and now these renegades have held a council upon me along with others who wish me evil, which is beyond all that words can say or to recount and no longer does my faith or law avail me, and they have ordered against me these lowly mean and hapless, to deliver me up to those renegades and take me to their land. Where I make no account of my life, and I now pray you by the love of God to come to my relief as quickly as you can, to succor me for my men are counted, and ready to help you to combat, and remember that I am falling into a pit without a chain or a hand to lift me up and straighten me on the way, and all other things which still remain to be written and that have passed an account will be given you by Bocujas Adim who knows them well, and what else
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