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 and in their presence complained how meanly and improperly he was supplied with food, though no small sum of money for expenses had been given by the pasha of Buda to the kapigi pasha, and, therefore, he was determined not to allow his suite to perish of hunger. Thereupon he had a casket brought and opened in their presence, containing the ready money intended for the Turkish emperor, and took out thence a bag of money, in which were more than 2,300 florins, and gave notice that he, the ambassador, would spend that money in the purchase of food and other necessaries, keep an account of it, and complain of the kapigi pasha at the Turkish court, and that should the matter in any way come home to him, he must not blame anybody but himself. The chiaouses said nothing in reply, but that the kapigi had orders to provide us with proper food. On that day's journey, though at a great distance, the Turks showed us from the higher ground the mountains of Transylvania, almost at the place in which stood the pillars of the bridge of the Roman Emperor Trajan.

On Oct. 30 we arrived at the village of Jagoden, which is tolerably large and handsome. Immediately as you enter it stands a handsome Turkish mosque, or church, with a lead roof. There is also a spacious caravanserai, where we kept our horses, but we ourselves lay outside of it in a peasant's house, rather than in the stench. Opposite our inn was a second Turkish church, and in front of it a cistern, ornamentally constructed of white marble, in which the Turks, according to their