_ 169 _ However, he abandoned his wife and daughter and did not appear again. I was told that he had conferred with the King, who was in the countryside. The latter took him to task for having debated with me, as I was a great sorcerer. Nevertheless, they received him well in the Kingdom of Larck where they hold him in high esteem. When the Moors saw all this, they were terrified and they steered well clear of me. The Christians, meanwhile, were overjoyed. We baptized the two women amid festivities and music. More than a hundred Christians gathered, though they had left many behind, to be joined by the whole city. Whereupon, they married two Portuguese, very honest men. Glory be to Christ(A). When this was over, because the Moors were profoundly shocked at seeing their much-revered sage put to flight, many of them began to be converted every day. What they previously considered a disgrace, namely, to become a Christian, they now viewed with pride. Others look great care to avoid me and when I passed along the (A) Biminel: “…. We baptized them granting them the honorific title of Dona because they were of royal blood, and them I collected eight hundred pardaus in gold and married them to two very upright Portuguese. Praise be to Christ.” The copy of the BAL would not be understood by itself alone.
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