They were not wont in time past to be so strong, nor so feared of the Turks, for they had not the use of artillarie in the warre: but nowe they haue meruailous great preparation in theyr warre. Hee hath in wages certaine Dutch Captaines, and about tenne thousand Maister gunners, and is meruailously well furnished with harquebushes, and artillery, and because men understand that hee hath so vanquisht the Tartarians, and brought thē to such a state, that they cannot much more resist him, and that if the saide Muscouite should be maisters ouer the Tartars, they should consequently be Rulers of the great sea, & the way should bee open and easie for them to come, not onely to Constantinople, but also to driue the Turke out of Europe: and because that the saide great Turke is assured of this enterprise and commotion of the Greekes: he hath cōcluded and determined, to send to the said Tartars a good assistance of fifteene thousand fighting men, and also for this purpose, hee hath sent to the sea ten Gallies to passe them ouer. Men make mention and doubt of _Mondaccio_ which is a great Prince and Ruler, and able to make foure score, or a hundred thousand horse: and yet men are uncertaine whose part he will take, because hee is tributarie unto the great Turke. There is newes also from _Affrica_, that the king of _Bugien_, the king _Tramece_, the king of _Tunis_, the children of _Serif_. The Lord of _Murocho_, and of _Gran_, with the _Arabians_ and other, haue taken in hand to driue and expulse the turke wholy out of _Affrica_, & to endomage him as much as they may. Men know not yet in what place they will war, but we shall know it shortly. The newes also is, that the _Soffie_ is in Campe with a great Armie, and hath the _Medes_ to helpe him, which border upon the Caspian Sea, and of one side neighbour to the _Hircans_, called at this day _Correxans_ and _Zecatans_, with whom he hath made a league and peace. There are on his side also the _Ibeians_ and _Albians_, and also the people of _Melibar_, which harbor upō the _Indians_, and likewise with the king of _Bosphorus_, all beeing people meruailous swift and nimble. In this so mightie an host and armie, is also _Bascet_ the sonne of the great Turke, by meanes whereof, all in those parts is in great trouble, as well as heere. It seemeth that the _Ienissaries_ bring him the lot of _Turkie_, as _Baduget_, _Zermonia_, _Alepo_, and all the Regions lying neere to the _Soffi_ is reuolted, all the which particularities shall be understoode more at large.