“Now for three days and more I knew that my father would not seek me， being deceived by the words I had said to him. And on the fourth day we arrived at the city of Azim Balda. Now Azim Balda stands at the meeting of many roads and from it the posts of the Tisroc （may he live for ever） ride on swift horses to every part of the empire： and it is one of the rights and privileges of the greater Tarkaans to send messages by them. I therefore went to the Chief of the Messengers in the House of Imperial Posts in Azim Balda and said， ‘O dispatcher of messages， here is a letter from my uncle Ahoshta Tarkaan to Kidrash Tarkaan， lord of Calavar. Take now these five crescents and cause it to be sent to him.’ And the Chief of the Messengers said， ‘To hear is to obey.’
