Travels into the L e v a.nt- Part T 
defence of the Gicy. For ray own part I make no doubt, but that if they had 
appeared, the Turks would have abandoned Confiamim^le ; it is moffc cer- 
tain that the Gra-^d Sigmor would have immediately fled over to Jfa j and 
a great many among them faid, that the time was come which had been fore- 
told by a Scbeikor Imam^ to wit, that the time would come when a Cheqitin 
would be offered for a place in a Ferme ^ to go from Conftar.tïnofle to Scudaret^ 
and could not be had. This Overthrow had been foretold by feveral Turks 
to be greater than it was, for before the Fleet put out from Conftaminople^ \ 
was told that fome Turks had predicted that not one fail of them Ihould 
come back again, and that the Chriftians fhould not only defeat it, but take 
The taking Canea alfo the fame year, which neverthelefs proved not to be true ; but the 
Y^^"^^^"^^^ ° Venetians took Tenedo and Lemnos^ which would have much incommoded 
^' the Turks, if the Chriflians had kept them; for keeping fome Gallies 
and Gallealles at Tciedo^ they would have deprived the Turks of Greece^ of 
all Commerce by Sea with (^gyft ; but the Turks foon after took both thefe 
The Captain ijjgjjjjg^ ^^^^^ j.p,jg gj-gg^- Overthrfw, every one" thought that the Captain 
turned ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^j^ j^^^ j...^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ Friends that they faved 
him, ouly he was mo-dQ Manfoul and in his place was employed Seyd Hamet 
Tht^imeoi Bajlia, with Orders to the Captain Bafia Manfoul to go to Negre^om ^ of 
of the Cap. ^hjc^ he was made Baji^a. This man named Onrous Kienan Bajha was by 
tdin B^p^(t. i-^^lIIow a Rnjfian ; and one Night when the Tartars plundered the Village where 
he was, they found him at the age of fix Months lying ftark naked on a heap of 
Chaff ; they took him, and with other Slaves fent him to Cofifiamimple^wherQ he 
was fold, and brought up in the Turkilh Religion, wherein his luck was fo 
good, that he attained to the highefc places. Sunday the fixth of Au^ufi, 
late in the Night, when hardly any thing could be feen, feven Turkifh Galleys 
of fomt^of the ^"^ ^ Maone^ which were part of the remaining Fleet, came into the Port 
remaining Conflaatinofle, without any noife, having no Colours nor Main-raafts, but 
Velfeisto only the fore Maft Handing : we who were Frani^s rejoiced at all this in pri- 
Co/ijfmimpk. vpAç., but fo far from making any Publick rejoicing ; it behoved us to ad the 
Turks andfeem forrowful for the Chriftians good fuccefs: Neverthelefs, af- 
ter the lofs of that Battel the Turks conceived fo great hatred and rage againft 
the Chriftians, that the very fight of a Fr^/^ brought it into their mind j nay 
many of them feeing Frank Merchants pafs along in Galata^ could not forbear to 
fay openly, We ^oall fee at h2L\XZmvehat will become of thefe Hats ^ fo that thoié 
The fear of vvho heard the words telling them to one another, we thought we had reafon 
c «/«^"«^ r apprehend that they might take the day of Bairsm to Maffacre all the 
'^""""■^ Franks: It was known alfo that feveral Janiz^aries were come a fhoar one night in 
Galata, and this gave us great fufpicion, for we ought to fear every thing from 
Bruitifli People,efpecially when they are provoked. The EngUjl) Ships that were 
in the Port, by orders from their Ambaifadcur, in the Night-time put off a 
little from Ihoar, and kept good Guard, in fine the Bairam which was the 
four and twentieth of Jdy^ being paft, we took a little heart again, but 
Friday the eight and twentieth of Jdy^ about ten a clock at Night, a Letter 
was brought to the French Ambafl^adour, which renewed our former fears ; it 
Pra^or/iM. was written in Turkifh by an Itchoglan of the Serraglio, that is clofe by the 
Palace of the Ambafi^adour, who fent for his chief Dragoman or interpreter, 
and gave him the Letter to read ; the purport whereof was, that if the Turks 
An luhoglin had failed to fall upon the Franks at their Bairam^ they fliould not fail to do 
'I Utter' within a few Days. My Lord Ambaffadour fent that Letter to the ^ga of 
wrote to die '^'^^ Janiz.aries, who having feen it, caufed the Young-man who wrote it in a 
French Amba(. ^eer caprice, to have initantly two hundred blows of a Cudgel upon the 
fadour. fo]es of his Feet ; fo that his Cries were heard in the Ambaifodours Houfe. 
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