[305] Modern name the same. Ortelius calls it Capsia.
[307] Mosque of Sultan Selim II.
[308] I.e., bugs.
[309] The term “mumpus” is derived from “mump”, Dutch mompen, “to cheat”. “I am resolved to mump your proud players.” (Duke of Buckingham, The Rehearsal, p. 23.)
[310] Probably, as Covel was a Cambridge man, he alludes to the same lady as Mr. Pepys speaks of as Mr. Sanchy’s mistress: “And there found Mr. Sanchy and Mrs. Mary Archer, sister to the fair Betty whom I did admire at Cambridge.”
[311] The terrible earthquake at Ragusa is stated by Von Hammer as occurring in 1668. Five thousand persons perished in it; the harbour was destroyed; “water, fire, air, and earth were mingled in a terrible combat, the result of which was the ruin of Ragusa” (Von Hammer). The Turks took advantage of the position, increased the taxes, and utterly crushed the place. In 1678, one Ragusan Ambassador was put to death, another put in prison, and 200,000 crowns demanded from the inhabitants.
[312] Amurath III died 1595.
[313] Arab. suffah is deriv. of our word “sofa”.
[314] The Grand Vizier, Achmet Kiuprili, died towards the close of the year 1676.