And out of them made choice of two Lads; whom afterwards he sent and took into his Court.

Their honours and their ends we shall see by and by.

They were all placed in the City of Cande, and each of them had a new Mat given them to sleep on, and their Diet was Victuals dressed and brought them twice a day from the King's own Palace.

They had Cloths also distributed to them another time.
So that these men had the advantage of us.

For we neither had Mats nor Cloths, nor had the honour of being ever brought into the King's Presence.
[They hoped to obtain Liberty, but were mistaken.] This civil Reception upon their first coming up into the City, put these Persia Merchant-men in hope, that the King would give them their Liberty.