them in that desolate Place. In the Month of _September_, the victorious Navy of the _Turks_ returned to _Constantinople_, bringing the _Christians_ Captives, with their Gallies along with them. A joyful Spectacle to the _Turks_; but a sad one to the _Christians_ that lived amongst them! That Night it lay at Anchor near the Rocks over against _Byzantium_, that so they might enter the Port the next Day in greater Pomp and Splendor. _Solyman_ came down into an Apartment in his Gardens near the Sea-side, that from thence he might see the Prisoners entring in. _Don Alvarez de Sande_ was in the stern of his Admiral Galley, and with him, _Don Sancho de Leyva_, and _Don Bellinger de Requesne_, one Commander of the _Sicilian_ Galleys, the other of the _Neapolitan_. The Galleys of the _Christians_ were despoiled of their Ornaments, as Streamers, _&c._ and hall’d in Barques, that they might appear little and contemptible in the sight of the _Turks_. They who observ’d _Solyman_’s Countenance at that time say, that they perceived no sign of insolent Mirth therein. This is certain, that when I saw him go to his Devotion the next day, his Countenance was not altered from its usual Hue, as if that Victory had not concern’d him at all; so well was this cunning old Man able to bear the breath of his smiling Fortune, that he was unmov’d under it. The Prisoners were afterwards brought into the _Seraglio_, but so miserably hunger-starv’d before, that some could hardly stand on their Legs, others fell down in a Swoon for very Feebleness; others had Arms in a Jeer put upon them, in which posture they died; the _Turks_ insulting over them on every Hand, and promising to themselves the Empire of the whole World; for who now shall be able to stand before us, (said they) since we have overcome the _Spaniards_? There was a Commander in the _Turkish_ Fleet, with whom I had some Acquaintance, who had taken the great Banner of the _Neapolitans_ Galleys, being Imperial Eagles embracing one another; being inform’d that he was about to present it to _Solyman_, I thought good to prevent him; and sending him two silken Garments, I obtained the Banner, that so the Ensign of _Charles_ the Fifth might not remain in the Hands of Infidels, to the eternal Infamy of the Christian Name.