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A 
RELATION 
Of what paft at the Taking of 
BABYLON, 
OTHERWISE CALLED 
B A G D A T 
B Y 
SULTAN AMURATH 
Emperour of the T U R K S ; 
Tranflated from a Letter written from the iaiJ 
City by the Grand Signiors chief Faulconer to 
Mufla^ha Beyj one of the SangiacI^ of Egyp^ 
at Caire, 
After the giving of God thanks, and other Cere- 
monies ufed by the Tnrl^ in their Letters. 
TH E eighth of the Moon of Regeb^ which was the eleventh of November ^ 
1638. tiie Grand Stgnior pitched his Camp before Bagdat^ in the fame 
place where ( above an hundred years before ) Sultan Solyman had pitched his : 
And the fame day he went to the Sepulchre of the blefled Iman Az^^am-, and cal- 
led together all the Fiz.ters^ Bapas, and other chief Officers of his Army, com- 
'manding them to Draw up their feveral men in Battel-array, and after that, 
allotted the Polls to all the Principal Commanders, encompaffing his Camp 
with Horfe, and placing all his Foot round himfelf. Then he rode on Horfe- 
back round about the whole Camp, and came into the middle, which was fo 
well fluit in, that no body could go out or in, without giving an account to 
Generals that were polled on the Flanlcs. The fame day he caufed great heaps 
of Earth to be call up in all places, where the Cannon of the Town could an- 
noy ,vis, and ordered great quantities of Wood and Faggots to be brought, 
which being mingled with he Earth, made three Hills in as many places, higher 
than 
