_ 125 _ on horseback came to welcome me, very worthy and very well-dressed in every way. He is called Azem Pasha. He had with him fifty musketeers. I have discovered that he has come to be commander of the fleet when there is one in this strait. After I entered the city, I found in certain places group of twenty men, worthy and well-dressed, who were waiting for me. After I had talked to all of them, they went in before until we reached the house where the King was, together with a man called Muhammad Beg, who is the Chief Treasury Officer, and the Commander of the fleet and four or five men, very worthy and important. Around them there must have been two hundred soldiers, very well-dressed and very disciplined, each one in his proper place at not moving about. When we arrived before the King, whom I found placed on a dais, I kissed his hand and those of all the others, and also that of the Chief Treasury Officer because I had heard that it was the custom in talks. I was well received, for they rose from where they were seated and were very merry and content, until the King sat me down on his right, which is the greatest honour they can confer. Whereupon we exchanged certain words until I gave him your letters, and they rejoiced greatly at them,
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