[29] There is much dispute as to the route taken by the ships and as to almost every point connected with the passage. I would only say that it seems to me that the view of Professor Van Millingen, which I have followed in the text, is the most satisfactory.
[30] Quoted by M. Chedomil Mijatovich, from a Slavonic MS.
[31] See Van Millingen, pp. 89 and 99.
[32] The icons were hewn down, the ornaments everywhere torn off, the altar stripped of its coverings, the lamps and sacred vessels stolen; everything, says Ducas, of silver and gold or other precious substance was taken away, and the church was left naked and desolate.
[33] These are Finlay's figures.
[34] Sandys' Travels, pp. 48, 49, ed. 1627.
[35] The form "Sultana" is only a Western one. The Turks use the word Sultan for both sexes, placing it after the name in the case of a female.
[36] Quoted by Ranke, Ottoman and Spanish monarchies [Eng. trans.], p. 12.
[37] Ranke, quoting Barbaro, the Venetian ambassador.
[38] Finlay, vol. v. p. 92. See Von Hammer, viii. 134, 317.