THE EXPEDITION OF SENAN PASHA.
In 959 the Capudan Senan Pasha went to sea with one hundred and twenty vessels, the command of which he held till the end of 960. He died in 961, and was buried at Scutari. The poet Sahari has thus commemorated the period of his death:
Fate at last gives up the body to decay, even should it be that of Noah the pilot.
Whenever the huge leviathan Death draws a breath, the ocean seems but a drop to him.
To his friends Senan was another Joseph; to his enemies he was a dart.
Come, Sahari, let us offer up a prayer for him; “May God make glad his pure spirit!”
The invisible Spirit has revealed the time of his death. “The capudan has joined the Divine Mercy.”