_ 224 _ Your ginger and lengths of canvas were all given to me in the Arab manner, but the Chief Treasury Officer said, when he gave them to me that as you did not write to him matters, concerning the treasury would have to be negotiated through him. I replied that when Hajji Fayid left here, he had not arrived in this country, and also that he was only given a letter from Belar Pasha. To this he replied that it had been sent to me and that it was for that reason that you did not write to him, but once he knew from my letter that with my orders and my authority he would do it, I think that you should not send any more goods because of what I have already told you, for there is such great risk. If you are writing to the King before I arrive in Ormuz, it is very necessary to send this man an extension of the position he occupies. I assure you that in the long run nothing is done in the treasury but what he wishes and commands, and that therefore whoever has Basra must do this. Before Baltasar Dias left, as I have already told you, I had to set up a shop, which is what I did, because I saw that this place was very bad for buying and selling, and in order to expedite my own affairs. I took six horses from there, and you will find that it is declared on the account which accompanies them that 8,400 dinars were spent, in
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