[174] Gévay, ii, 28; also Ellesmere, op. cit., chap. 2.
[175] For the original narrative of the Count von Zedlitz in the Turkish camp, see Ellesmere’s book where it is quoted in full.
[176] Kupelwieser, op. cit., p. 145.
[177] A purse contained 500 piastres.
[178] Juritschitz wrote a report of this siege to his master Ferdinand, a French translation which is found in Charrière, vol. i, p. 215 etc. Also in Monumenta Hungariae Historica, vol. i, p. 169, cf. also Petchevi.
[179] “Jay bien apercu quil prenoit de bonne parte que je fasoie difficulte d’aller devers le Turc (Suleiman) et que je le tenoie en telle estimacion.” Charrière, vol. i, p. 219.
[180] An account of the splendid entrance into Aleppo is given by Master Anthony Jenkinson in Hakluyt’s Voyages, vol. ii, pp. 225 et seq.
[181] Abdurrahman Sheref says that the difficulties of this march make this campaign rank highest among Suleiman’s expeditions, p. 239.
[182] Postel, op. cit., speaks of Ibrahim’s looting of Hungary, and also says: “Arabistan, Serestan and Anatolia condemned him for the great pillage and exactions which he made, so much that the people were left (even the richest of them) with no carpet to sleep on, and the trees were taxed impossibly,” p. 49.
[183] Original narrative of the Adventures of Count Christopher von Zedlitz in the Turkish Camps. From the collection of Baron von Errenkel in the State Archives at Vienna. Tr. by Ellesmere, p. 47.