[328] Phrantzes (p. 248) says 260 Turkish prisoners were executed.
[329] The Moscovite, ch. vii.
[330] Crit. xliv.
[331] Dr. Mordtmann places the bridge between Cumberhana and Defterdar Scala.
[332] Ducas gives the above dimensions. Assuming the width from centre of each barrel, including a space between them, to be four feet, this would give the length of the bridge as 2,000 feet, which is about the width of the Horn at the place mentioned. Phrantzes gives its length at a hundred fathoms and the breadth fifty fathoms. These dimensions are clearly wrong if applied to the bridge, since the length falls far short of the width of the gulf. Leonard says it was thirty stadia long. Here, as elsewhere, I suspect that he uses stadium for some measure about one ninth of a furlong in length. If this conjecture is right, his estimate of the length of the bridge is about 2,000 feet.
[333] Phrantzes, 252.
[334] Barbaro, 36; Phrantzes, 250.
[335] The Moscovite, xv. While there are useful hints in this anonymous author, he is generally untrustworthy. This fight, for example, is represented as being outside the walls. It is incredible that the Greeks should have made a sortie at this period of the siege. As an illustration of the untrustworthy character of the writer, it may be noted that the number of Turks killed during the siege totals up to 130,000!
[336] Leonard, the Vallum and the Antemurale.
[337] Phrantzes, p. 244.