This Matter did very much raise my Spirits, which were quite sunk at the Remembrance of the former Mis-hap of the Marriage-Feast. This Story informs us, that our Pistols and Carbines, which are used on Horseback, are a great Terror to the _Turks_, as I hear they are to the _Persians_ also; for once, there was a Fellow that persuaded _Rustan_, when he accompanied his Prince in a War against _Persia_, to arm two hundred Horse of his Domesticks with Pistols: For those, said he, will be terrible to our Enemy, and will also do great execution upon them. _Rustan_ hearkned to his Counsel, and furnished out a Party, as advised; but, before they had marched half way, their Carbines or Pistols were ever now and then out of Order; one thing or other was broke or lost, and scarce any Body could mend them: Hereupon this Party was useless. The _Turks_ were also against this Armature, because it was slovenly (the _Turks_, you must know, are much for cleanliness in War); for the Troopers Hands were black and sooty, their Cloaths full of Spots, and their Case-boxes that hung by their Sides made them ridiculous to their Fellow-Soldiers, who therefore jeered them, with the Title _Medicamentarii_, or _Mountebank Soldiers_; hereupon they apply themselves to _Rustan_, complaining of this broken, useless Armour, which could do no Service against an Enemy, and entreating to have their usual Weapons again, their Bows and Arrows; which, are readily granted them. The mention I made a while ago of things acted in the Confines of _Hungary_, gives me occasion to tell you, what the _Turks_ think of Duels, which amongst _Christians_ is accounted a singular Proof of personal Valour. There was one _Arslambeg_, a _Sanziack_, that lived in the Frontiers of _Hungary_, who was very much famed for a robust Person; he was very expert at the Bow; no Man brandished his Sword with more Strength, or was more terrible to his Enemy. Not far from him there dwelt one _Uliber_, a _Sanziack_ also, who was emulous of the same Praise; and this Emulation (heighten’d, perhaps, by other Motives) at length occasioned Hatred and many bloody Combats between them. It happened thus, _Uliber_ was sent for to _Constantinople_; upon what occasion I know not. When he came thither, and the _Bashaws_ had asked many Questions of him, in the _Divan_, concerning other Matters, at last they demanded how he and _Arslambeg_ (_Arsla_ signifies a Lion in _Turkey_) came to fall out? Hereupon he makes a long Narration of the Grudges between them, with their Causes and Progress; and to put a fairer Gloss on his own Cause, he added, that once _Arslambeg_ had laid an Ambush, and wounded him treacherously: And that, said he, he needed not have done, if he would have shewed himself worthy the Name he bears; for I have often challenged him to fight Hand to Hand, and never shun’d to meet him in the Field. The _Bashaws_, much offended, thus replied, _How durst thou challenge thy