On that day more than six
thousand Moors were baptized by Tirant. The others stayed there
the next day and the following days until they were all made
Christians. Few of them left, and the most vile were those who
did not receive baptism.
The news of all this was soon spread throughout Barbary, so that
it reached the ears of the kings who were coming to King
Escariano's aid. Very angry, they advanced as quickly as they
could and took away his entire kingdom. They gave it to the King
of Persia, and immediately crowned him king.
While these kings were conquering King Escariano's lands,
messengers came to him daily with the bad news that they were
taking his entire kingdom from him, and that he had only three
castles that were defending themselves and refusing to surrender.
After King Escariano became a Christian, Tirant begged him to
give all the villas and cities he had taken from the King of
Tremicen back to the queen, to whom they belonged. The king very
generously did this, but then he begged Tirant, as a brother in
arms, to give the queen to him for his wife.
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