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We at once gave the renegade five hundred crowns to buy the vessel, and

with eight hundred I ranso the iers at the ti it that on the arrival of the first ship

froiven thesuspect that iers, and that the e kept it secret In fact my master was so difficult to deal with

that I dared not on any account pay down the money at once The Thursday

before the Friday on which the fair Zoraida was to go to the garden she

gave us a thousand crowns

arden at once, and by

allthere to see her I answered in

a feords that I would do so, and that she must remember to commend us

to Lela Marien with all the prayers the captive had taught her This

having been done, steps were taken to ransom our three comrades, so as to

enable the h the , they should make a disturbance

about it and the devil should proht

injure Zoraida; for though their position ht be sufficient to relieve

to run any risk

in the matter; and so I had the over all the ht with safety

and confidence give security; without, however, confiding our arrangeerous