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There are not less than four hundred merchants and factors continually residing here for the sake of trade in silks, pearls, precious stones, spices, and the like. The principal article of their sustenance at this place is rice. Departing from Ormuz I went into Persia, and after ten days journey I came to Eri a city in Chorazani which also we may name Flaminia.
It was sheer nonsense to suppose that Ormuz Khan, who was evidently interested in the girl, could be in any way concerned in the death of her father. Nevertheless, as an ordinary matter of routine, Paul Harley, having lighted his pipe, made a note on a little block: Cover activities of Ormuz Khan. He smoked reflectively for a while and then added another note: Watch Nicol Brinn.
I am informed by all the brokers in Teueris, that the way once open to Ormuz, from whence commeth no such store of spices as the worshipfull doeth looke for, that here will bee put a way in Teueris, some for money, and other some for barter, to the number of three hundred or foure hundred pieces of karsies, being in coulers and goodnesse to the examples here sent you, the rest of the karsies to make them vp a thousand, and broad clothes to the summe of a hundred, bee as many as will be put away yeerely in this countrey, so farre as yet I can perceiue.
A pair of gray suede shoes became visible a few inches behind the glossy black boots curiously small shoes with unusually high heels. The identity of their wearer was beyond dispute to the man who had measured that delicate foot. Ormuz Khan stood behind the screen! "You have been guilty of a series of unfortunate mistakes, Mr. Harley," continued the speaker.
"This Ormuz Khan, I understood you to say, actually resides in or near London?" "He is at present living at the Savoy, I believe. He also has a house somewhere outside London." There were a hundred other questions Paul Harley was anxious to ask: some that were professional but more that were personal.
Whenever his none too clean hands touched Ormuz Khan's delicate skin the Oriental perceptibly shuddered. "Of course, sir," said Parker at last, "I should really have taken your measurement with the sock on." "I wear only the finest silk." "Very well, sir. As you wish." Parker replaced paper, pencil, and measure, and, packing up the rejected shoes, made for the door.
"Innes, if I am right, I shall probably proceed to one of two places: the apartments of Ormuz Khan or the chambers of Nicol Brinn. Listen. Remain here until I phone whatever the hour." "Shall I advise Wessex to stand by?" Harley nodded. "Yes do so. You understand, Innes, I am engaged and not to be disturbed on any account?" "I understand. You are going out by the private exit?" "Exactly."
From Chaul, an infinite quantity of goods are exported for other parts of India, Macao, Portugal, the coast of Melinda, Ormuz, and other parts; such as cloth of bumbast or cotton, white, painted, and printed, indigo, opium, silk of all kinds, borax in paste, asafoetida, iron, corn, and other things.
Hindu beggars, so dirty that they seemed to have returned to dust before death; three fakirs, armed with round-bladed daggers with which they were wounding themselves apparently in the most reckless manner, so as to send streams of blood flowing to the ground, and redly tattooing the ashes with which their naked bodies were covered; Parsees with their long noses curving over their moustaches, clothed in white, sending one's thoughts back to Ormuz, to Persia, to Zoroaster, to fire-worship and to the strangeness of the fate which drove them out of Persia more than a thousand years ago, and which has turned them into the most industrious traders and most influential citizens of a land in which they are still exiles; Chinese, Afghans the Highlanders of the East Arabs, Africans, Mahrattas, Malays, Persians, Portuguese half-bloods; men that called upon Mohammed, men that called upon Confucius, upon Krishna, upon Christ, upon Gotama the Buddha, upon Rama and Sita, upon Brahma, upon Zoroaster; strange carriages shaded by red domes that compressed a whole dream of the East in small, and drawn by humped oxen, alternating with palanquins, with stylish turnouts of the latest mode, with cavaliers upon Arabian horses; half-naked workmen, crouched in uncomfortable workshops and ornamenting sandal-wood boxes; dusky curb-stone shopkeepers, rushing at me with strenuous offerings of their wares; lines of low shop-counters along the street, backed by houses rising in many stories, whose black pillared verandahs were curiously carved and painted: cries, chafferings, bickerings, Mussulman prayers, Arab oaths extending from "Praise God that you exist" to "Praise God although you exist;" all these things appealed to the confused senses.
From Ormuz it is 990 miles to Goa, on which passage the first city you come to in India is Diu, situated in a small island of the kingdom of Cambaia; and, though a small city, is the strongest fortified of any of those possessed by the Portuguese in India, having great trade, and loading many great ships with merchandise for Ormuz and the Red Sea.
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