In a communication from Mohammed Páshá, commandant of Buda, it was stated, that one afternoon, about the middle of the month of Shabán there appeared, in the German peleponesus on the north of Hungary, a black circular cloud, from which blood dropped like rain. This atmospheric appearance was accompanied by a most tremendous burst of thunder, and in the cloud there was seen the appearance of fiery crosses. After this cloud had condensed itself, a great quantity of smoke began to issue from it in all directions; and shortly afterwards another tremendous burst of thunder was heard. Those who heard it were stupified and confounded: the cattle in the field fell upon their knees, turned their heads towards the heavens, and then fled wild in all directions, many of which were never afterwards found. Some short time after the last burst of thunder, three successive sounds were heard issuing from the heavens, which, from their hideousness, might have awakened the dead. From this cloud, also, descended black round hail or balls, about the size of a cubit, which rolled along the ground. Some of these hail-stones which were taken up weighed three kintals.
Betlan Gabor.
After Betlan Gabor had been fully established in the government of Transylvania, he accompanied Iskander Páshá in his expedition against the Poles, on which occasion he led ten thousand foot and twelve thousand horse into the country of Moldavia, near the fortress of Sordukna; but, in consequence of the peace which on that occasion was entered into with the ambassador of the king of Poland, he returned home with his troops.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] See preface to a translation of the Maritime Wars of the Turks, by James Mitchell.
[2] Author of the Maritime Wars of the Turks, and other celebrated works in Turkish.
[3]بيمارم اي اجل بوكيجه بكله يانم آل
[4]ناصيمده كاتب قدرة نه يازدي بلمدم
آه كيم بوكلشن عالمده هركز كو لدم
[5] Ancient heroes of Persian fable.