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we may go to the extreme limits of the world, I still entertain 

 a strong desire to flee to you. On our way to Hungary, riding*, 

 we passed two leagues of country, where the exhalation from the 

 decomposing bodies of men, horses, and camels was intolerable. 



A letter was also sent to the King of France, informing him 

 of this victory, though it was hardly competent for me to write 

 to another' King of the feats of valour performed by me. But I 

 know that I made strenuous efforts in the very heat of the battle, 

 without ah'gbting from my horse for thirty hours, and this 

 shews that the soldier is greater than the King. Since I enter- 

 ed on this war my bed has been the earth, and my covering the 

 heavens. 



No. V. 



The Muster-roll of the Turkish Army. 



Hans Kinerlin, a Christian, who had been captured when the 

 city of Canea belonging to Venice was taken by the Turks,* 

 came as the Grand Vizier's Master of the Horse, and while the 

 Turks were being repulsed, fed into the city of Vienna and wrote 

 down the following muster-rollf of the invading army, which, 

 also brought from Amsterdam, is translated into Sinhalese. 



The household troops of the Grand Vizier... 9890 



Troops of the Red Flag 23000 



Yellow Flag 6500 



„ Green Flag 6500 



, „ White and Green Flag . v . 5500 

 „ White and Red Flag 3800 



* The siege of Candia. under Vizier Azem Mustaplia, in 1645. 



t The strength of the regular force which Kara Mustaplia led to Vienna is 

 known from the muster-roll which was found in his tent after the sie^e. 'it 

 amounted to 275,000 men. The attendants and camp-followers cannot be reck- 

 oned ; n »r can any but an approixmate speculation be made as to the number 

 of the Tartar and other irregular troops that joined the Vizier. It is proba- 

 ble that not less than halt a million of men were set in motion in this last great 

 aggressive effort of the Ottomans against Christendom "—Gea ,7, b. c. p. 56. 



