424 APPENDIX, N" II. 
No. 11. 
RAVAGES committed in CONSTANTINOPLE, ' 
by the Christian Armies under Baldwyn Earl of Flanders, 
A.D. 1205. 
In the beginning of the First Section of this Part 
of the Author's Travels, he endeavoured to prove that 
the City of Constantinople, since it fell under the 
dominion of the Turks, has undergone fewer al- 
terations than those which took place while it con- 
tinued in the hands of their predecessors ; main- 
taining, that " Christians, and not Turks, have 
been the principal agents in destroying the statues 
and public buildings of the city'." This opinion is 
strongly supported by the observations of Belon", 
who, in the middle of the sixteenth century, ac- 
companied Gyllins in his travels : and if it be true, 
as has been asserted, that Belon published the 
(1) See Vol. III. Chap. I. p. 10. Octavo Edition. 
(2) See the passage cited from Belon, in p. 165, Note (2), of this 
Volume. 
