_ 347 _ island since, if it had been the mainland, he would have left it many years before, even though it was his native land, and this was on account of the absence of justice that he had seen everywhere here up to the present. Because of these and other ills which have been witnessed in such a short space of time in this country, Your Lordship will see what can happen to this city, since it is enough to ruin any kingdom that the king be a youth and the governor greedy and a foreigner who considers himself devoted to the state, because he rescued its trade in times past, as Jugurta saved that of Rome, according to popular rumour. As a result, the kingdom is in such a state that those who in the past served, feared and obeyed it now disobey and harass it, and its lands are stolen, as happened to Julfar, Moghistan and Kalhat a short while ago. There is no one to alter this because they have Guazils who ruin the lands and offend the people with contempt, and do not guard or defend them well. It may be that the fault is not altogether theirs, because the country can only be defended and guarded from its enemies with men and money, which they do not provide for these Guazils. Everywhere in this city and the country around, all the evils that this kingdom and city have suffered and
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