_ 133 _ and regard as their own. They will make efforts for them to be passed to them with great authority, and they will have a great dispute with Shah Tahmasp himself, and not with the Portuguese, until they see the end of what they have started. Before my arrival a worthy and very wealthy man came from Baghdad, to whom the King paid great honours. All the important people went to welcome him. He came with letters from the Turk, in which he reports that Shah Tahmasp’s brother had joined forces with him of his own free will, offering to be his vassal in order to oppose his brother in every way. His arrival caused the Turk no little satisfaction and pleasure, a pleasure that has been manifested by all his people here at this news. The reception accorded him was as follows. A good distance before he arrived at the gate’s carpets were thrown on the ground, and then satins, velvets and brocades, all of them costly articles, until they reached the Turk. He walked over these to where he was welcomed by the King, as was right, with all the honours that could be paid to him. After having exchanged many stories with him and settled him in his lodgings, the King ordered all the important people of his court to visit him and take to
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