There is no place here fit for his reception.

I was on a pilgrimage which would have kept me here seven days longer but as I am so impatient to see him, I will go off to my palace at once, and will send word for him to advance as soon as I arrive there." About noon the succeeding day, some pages ran in to say we were to come along without a moment's delay, as their king had ordered it.

He would not taste food until he saw me, so that everybody might know what great respect he felt for me.

In the meanwhile, however, he wished for some gunpowder.

I packed the pages off as fast as I could with some, and tried myself to follow, but my men were all either sick or out foraging, and therefore we could not get under way until the evening.