_ 184 _ cement. In addition, he gave me some items for the college. When the dignitaries saw this, they flew into a rage, threatening to lay waste the country, which is the most wonderful I have ever visited, together with the Customs House which, according to report, used to yield forty thousand (40,000) pardaus and now generates 100,000(A). And the naus that sailed to Mecca, came into port here to pay dues. Shah Tahmasp, the name given to Emperor Tahmasp of Persia, who was keen on waging war, was delighted that the faith had to defend itself, because these Moors were Sunnis, the Moorish sect espoused by the Turks, and to which those of Persia are opposed. It is said that this Sheikh is idolized by God and the water left over from washing his fleet is venerated like a relic to cure all kinds of illness. He is known as the Lord who sustains the heavens and the earth. In the end perierunt jumenta in stercore suo [the beasts of burden perished in their own Manuel]. So, when everything had settled down, the vengeance which the Moors could not achieved through the Moorish (A) According to the copy of the BIMINEL: 120,000 pardaus.
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