[382] The Moscovite, xxii. This first wound is only mentioned by the Moscovite.
[383] Phrantzes, 269.
[384] Barbaro, p. 50.
[385] Barbaro. Ducas says, from St. Eugenius to Hodegetria and as far as Vlanga (p. 282–3), which is substantially the same position as that given by Critobulus.
[386] Zorso Dolfin, p. 78.
[387] Sad-ud-din, p. 16. Translation by E. J. W. Gibb.
[388] τούφακας; in modern Greek the name for sporting guns is τουφέκια. The Turks call them Toufeng. Ducas uses the word μολυβδοβόλοι.
[389] Crit. xlvii. to lii.
[390] According to Critobulus, the meeting of the Council was on the 27th.
[391] Phrantzes, 269–70. Was the speech as recorded by Critobulus ever delivered? The answer I am disposed to give is that a speech was delivered which was substantially that reported by Phrantzes and Critobulus. The fashion followed by the Byzantine writers, and their desire to imitate classical models, by putting all speeches in the first person, made it necessary to invent a speech if the substance of what was said were known. Critobulus, writing some years after the capture and having had many opportunities of meeting with the Turkish leaders, was in a position to learn what was said and done by them, and hence his report, wherever it can be tested, almost invariably proves trustworthy.