[40] Sam, a sort of Simmoom.

[41] According to Rycaut, Prevesa had just been taken by the Patriarch Grimmanus, who had the command of the Pope’s galleys. The grand fleet had left this place before Khair-ad-din’s arrival.

[42] Bikli, “the moustached.”

[43] The numerical value of مات رئس البحر is 953.

[44] A work on navigation, of which further mention is made below, p. 72.

[45] If these are the barges mentioned at p. 72, this should of course be read fifteen.

[46] Fanar, a small vessel.