DEATH OF KHAIR-AD-DIN PASHA.
The pasha, after remaining at sea two years longer, to protect its navigation, returned to the Porte, where he died on the sixth of Jemazi-al-avul, 953 (A.D. August 1546), upwards of eighty years old, and was buried in his tomb at Beshektash. The period of his death is chronogrammatically expressed in the sentence,[43] “The chief of the sea is dead.” May the mercy of God be extended to him!