[148] The treasures of the Pre-Adamite Sultans. See D'Herbelot [1781, ii. 405], article _Istakar_ [Estekhar _ou_ Istekhar]. [149] "Musselim," a governor, the next in rank after a Pacha; a Waywode is the third; and then come the Agas. [This table of precedence applies to Ottoman officials in Greece and other dependencies. The Musselim [Mutaselline] is the governor or commander of a city (e.g. Hobhouse, _Travels in Albania_, ii. 41, speaks of the "Musselim of Smyrna"); Aghas, i.e. heads of departments in the army or civil service, or the Sultan's household, here denote mayors of small towns, or local magnates.] [150] "Egripo," the Negropont. According to the proverb, the Turks of Egripo, the Jews of Salonica, and the Greeks of Athens, are the worst of their respective races. [See Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, 1855, viii. 386.] [fy] _Like this--and more than this._--[MS.] [fz] {175} _But--Selim why my heart's reply_ _Should need so much of mystery_ _Is more than I can guess or tell,_ _But since thou say'st 'tis so--'tis well_.--[MS.] [The fourth line erased.] [ga] _He blest me more in leaving thee._ _Much should I suffer thus compelled_.--[MS.] [gb] {176} _This vow I should no more conceal_ _And wherefore should I not reveal?_--[MS.] [gc] _My breast is consciousness of sin_ _But when and where and what the crime_ _I almost feel is lurking here_.--[MS.] [151] "Tchocadar"--one of the attendants who precedes a man of authority. [See D'Ohsson's _Tableau Générale, etc._, 1787, ii. 159, and _Plates_ 87, 88. The Turks seem to have used the Persian word _chawki-dār_, an officer of the guard-house, a policeman (whence our slang word "chokey"), for a "valet de pied," or, in the case of the Sultan, for an apparitor. The French spelling points to D'Ohsson as Byron's authority.] [gd] {177} _Be silent thou_.--[MS.] [ge] {178} _Nov_. 9^th^ 1813.--[MS.] [152] [_Vide_ Ovid, _Heroïdes,_ Ep. xix.; and the _De Herone atque Leandro_ of Musæus.] [153] {179} The wrangling about this epithet, "the broad Hellespont" or the "boundless Hellespont," whether it means one or the other, or what it means at all, has been beyond all possibility of detail. I have even heard it disputed on the spot; and not foreseeing a speedy conclusion to the controversy, amused myself with swimming across it in the mean time; and probably may again, before the point is settled. Indeed, the question as to the truth of "the tale of Troy divine" still continues, much of it resting upon the talismanic word "ἄπειρος:" ["a)/peiros"] probably Homer had the same notion of distance that a coquette has of time; and when he talks of boundless, means half a mile; as the latter, by a like figure, when she says _eternal_ attachment, simply specifies three weeks.