[333] The janissaries mutinied, according to Knolles.
[334] Knolles says:—“Yet for all the speed he could make, the Georgian horsemen, the forerunners of Hysmaell, his armie being come within sight before the Turkes were all got over, raised such a feare and a stirre all alongt that side of the river that two thousand of the Turkes were in their hastie passage there drowned, divers field pieces left sticking in the mud, and much of their baggage carried away with the force of the river. The Georgians contenting themselves with such things as were left, pursued them no farther.”
[335] Ikindjis.
[336] Khafour el Ghouri.
[337] Syria.
[338] Knolles gives a different reason, namely, that the Persian soldiery were well suited for defending, but not for fighting out of their own country: so Ismael would not risk an invasion.
[339] Amasia, birthplace of Strabo. See [page 37].
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