_ 196 _ sent Henrique de Macedo as ambassador to Shah Tahmasp(A) I did not meet him here in this city when I arrived because he had already left. He reached Shah Tahmasp and after presenting his embassy to him, he wrote me [4v] a letter(B) This was delivered to me in this city by a certain Antonio Mendes de Oliveira, one of Your Highness’s attendants who was accompanying him, whom he sent alone with the letter. As I mention above, he told me in it that after he arrived to speak with Shah Tahmasp, a Moor of Ormuz who had left from here, who was thought to be a relative of Mohammed(C) a man they hold in high respect and to whom, for that reason, Shah Tahmasp showed great honour had arrived at his court a few days before. This same Moor turned up in this city from Chaul, and he brought with him a Moorish maiden for a wife, from the same clan as himself. This Moorish woman became a Christian here by her own wish, without any pressure being exerted on her in this matter(D), according to what I was told, because this was not in my time. Master Gaspar married her here to (A) Cf. doc. 21, 4. (B) This letter is thought to have been lost. (C) He was Zeid Maduny (cf, also doc. 21, 1 and 27, 1). (D) Cf. doc. 26, 7-8.
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