ABSTRACT
A rich merchant of the Mogores in the time when the traded with the Chinas, came to have great familiarity and friendship with a chief Louthia of the city where they traded, whom he served with great gifts of things which he brought him from his own country. The Moor through the close and familiar friendship which he had with the Louthia, boasting of it, and telling him great things of Mafamede, in sort that he ended by persuading and inducing him to become a Moor. There are some Moors in China scattered throughout divers parts thereof, who are not Chinas by nation, but who descend from the Mogores who are of the kingdom which is called Samarcham from the capital city being thus named. When the inquiry was finished and the guilty imprisoned, the business was submitted to the Court, and all the chief culprits in the affair were condemned to death, both Moors and Chinese.
