him so as to make him Guazil, who should keep the keys of the town, with a guard of Almocadenes, and of Christian foot-men of Almogavares who had been born in the land of the Moors. And it was appointed that the Cid should dwell in Juballa, in the town which he had made, and that he should alter none of their privileges, nor of their customs, nor the rents which they paid, nor their money. XXXI. Presently on the morrow they sent five good men as messengers to the King of Zaragoza, and as many more to Murcia; and it had been covenanted that neither of these messengers should take with him more than fifty _maravedís_ for his journey, and that they should go by sea as far as Denia, in a ship of the Christians, and from thence by land. These messengers embarked with their company on board that ship, and the Cid sent orders to the master thereof not to sail till he came; and the Cid came himself in his own body and bade them search the messengers to see if they took with them more than had been agreed; and he found upon them great riches in gold and in silver and in pearls and in precious stones; part was their own, and part belonged to other merchants in the city, who thought to send it to Murcla, not being minded to abide in Valencia: and he took it all, leaving them no more than fifty _maravedís_ each, according to the covenant. This was the price of food on the day when these messengers departed: the pound of wheat was three _maravedís_, and the pound of barley one and a half, and the pound of painick three, saving a quarter; the ounce of cheese three _dineros_, and the ounce of hemp seed four, and the pound of colewort one _maravedí_ and two _dineros_ of silver, and the pound of neat-skin one _maravedí_. In the whole town there was only one mule of Abeniaf's, and one horse: another horse which belonged to a Moor he sold to a butcher for three hundred and eighty _doblas_ of gold, bargaining that he should have ten pounds of the flesh. And the butcher sold the flesh of that horse at ten _maravedís_ the short pound, and afterwards at twelve, and the head for twenty _doblas_ of gold.