[16] There is something irrelevant in this. Botchkai is represented as having been raised to the sovereignty of Hungary, and not of Transylvania. The first of these is written مجار Majar, which is Hungary; and the second اردل Ardil, which is Transylvania, and which is said in the text to have been supplied with a new sovereign in room of Botchkai, who was created king of Majar or Hungary by the Ottoman emperor. But it seems not unlikely that by Majar, lower Hungary is meant, and of which Ardil or Transylvania was considered a portion. We find the word هونغاريا Hungaria employed, a few sentences afterwards, to mean the country of which the emperor of Austria’s brother was duke.
[17] Probably Paul V., who was certainly capable of doing what Naima here asserts. He has been charged by others of having fostered civil war in Bohemia, Hungary, England, France, and Germany.
[18] Rodolph II.; but his name is not mentioned in the text.
[19]اژدر هاي دم بريده
[20] A sort of military farmers, who rented the revenues of Egypt.
[21] A yúk is about 1,000 dollars.
[22] A gold coin, a drachm and a half weight.
[23] The night of power, the 27th of Ramazán, when the koran began to descend from heaven.
[24] Russian pilgrims either going to or coming from Jerusalem.
[25] The letters which had been sent from the fleet stated that the descent had been altogether sudden and unexpected at first. The fleet, these letters said, on arriving before or opposite a monastery on the island not far from the city, the admiral forbade Mímí Beg to leave his ship; but he landed his janissaries and other troops, who as soon as they individually reached the shore, such was their eagerness, cried out Allah! Allah! as they proceeded; which so alarmed the inhabitants that they all fled into the city with their servants. The Moslems, on reaching the monastery, were obliged, by reason of the cannon which played upon them from the fortress, to give up; and because they found it impracticable to keep the footing they had gained, they were constrained to return to their vessels. Forty or fifty were left on the island, but they effected no good whatever. The fleet, we are told on the same authority, seized, between Messina and Malta, on its return, a vessel, the crew of which informed the admiral that the twenty-seven ships he had been in quest of had entered Messina, where there were several other vessels belonging to the enemy.