_ 19 _ beside the old ones and made a great …. around the fortress which made it yet stronger. He built very well, and now it can be said that this fortress is as it should be, and we can boast about it. He ordered that all the King's houses which were around it should be pulled down, and he made a very … parade ground around the fortress, and it is much more secure. Nobody until that time had been able to do or to organize such a work. After he had completed the fortress he filled this city of Ormuz with people, and ennobled and maintained it with great justice and truth. Everything he did is held as an example and known in these lands and throughout Persia, and when this was known many caravans and merchants thronged to Ormuz. In his time everything was on the increase, profits and inhabitants and trade, and the residents of this land and foreigners were all happy with him and his justice, and all the time he was here he treated truthfully with residents and foreigners, so that Ormuz is now well-populated. In recent years no Captain has behaved as he did, for through his truth and justice all the fortresses in Arabia and Persia are obedient and pay their dues. All the residents
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