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 not the will of God. At that time, too, the sister of the Turkish emperor, whose son had fallen with Hassan in the battle, on hearing the news, ran to the Emperor, with dishevelled hair, as though frantic, and, falling at his feet, demanded vengeance on the Christians.

Our ambassador, on being several times reproached with the delay of the annual present, answered that the Turks were in fault themselves, since they had violated the armistice and truce, had taken the fortress of Wyhysht in Croatia, and had taken many hundred people captive. Wishing, however, to appease the Turks, who were enraged at this answer, he requested that permission might be given him to send some of his attachés to Vienna. When this was obtained, John Perlinger, John Malowetz, and Gabriel Hahn, the secretary, were sent off post-haste to inform the Emperor of what was projecting at the Turkish court. The two former returned again, and a certain Bon-Omo was sent as secretary. After a quarter of a year it could not be kept secret, but was universally said that there would be open war in Hungary. Synan Pasha, too, the chief enemy of the Christians, was summoned to the Turkish emperor, and was made vizier, or generalissimo of the army in the field. He came at night to the imperial court with a great number of lighted torches, and was splendidly escorted to his own palace; and everywhere, too, throughout the city resounded shouting, wishing of good-luck, and running out of doors with lights.

At this time Herr Karl Zahradetzky, from Moravia, came to us by sea, being on a pilgrimage from Venice