_ 103 _ and said that we should not waste our labor, because that tree would be as useless as the anchors we had cast into the sea, and that while we lay off his village everything would be severed. When the tree had been cut down, we found it all hollow and empty as they had been planning it away very carefully. These Moors are very much hated by the natives and are so notorious that when one is identified in a place the whole town rises against them and drives them out with stones as best as they can, especially in Muscat where they live close by and have more contact although the captains are eliminating hem as far as they can. The King of Persia Shah Tahmasp, King of Persia, with whose subjects we have long had dealings, was formerly so powerful that the Turk never attacked him without being beaten; but now this is not so. In the lifetime of the great-great-grandfather of the one who is at present reigning in secret, at the time of our coming to India, went out with his sword in his hand to preach new rites and prayers in praise of Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, whose true successor he considered him to be. As his people accepted his changes
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