[82] Sauli, Colonia dei Genovesi in Galata, ii. 260.
[83] Urban the Sixth died in 1389.
[84] Ducas, xiii.
[85] This was in 1097, when, on the invitation of Godfrey de Bouillon, Alexis had reached the city on its water side by taking his boats, in part at least, overland from the Gulf of Moudania to the lake. The object of Godfrey was to prevent the Crusaders being exposed to the demoralisation of plundering a hostile city.
[86] Greg. ix. 2 says the Turks had carried off three hundred thousand Christian captives. The Turks fought well, but were exterminated.
[87] Cant. iv. 16.
[88] Cant. iv. 39.
[89] I reserve my description of the Janissaries for a later chapter.
[90] Ch. xxiii.
[91] Chalc. i. 51, and Phrantzes, i. 11.