This _La Vigne_ at first was very strict and vexatious to me, and used all his Arts to bring me into the _Bashaws_ Dislike without any Fault of mine: He told them, I was a Subject to the King of _Spain_, born in the _Low-Countries_, and that I served the _Spaniard_ more than the Emperor; that I acquainted him with every thing that was done at _Constantinople_, and had Emissaries in Pay, who related to me the very Secrets of that Empire, amongst whom was _Ebrahim_ the chief _Druggerman_ of _Turkey_. This he did, before the Peace was made between _Spain_ and _France_; but, when those two Princes were agreed, he took the first opportunity to retract what he had spoken. _La Vigne_ was a Man of a prodigious Liberty of Speech; he would tell all he knew, let it be taken how it would. This made _Rustan_ himself to avoid his Company; whilst at the same time others were backward to converse with _Rustan_, because of the sourness of his Humour. He sent once to _Rustan_ to desire Audience: He told the Messengers, his Interpreters, that he might send his Errand by them, for his Business might be as well done in his Absence as in his Presence. Yet _La Vigne_ would needs come himself, where he spoke that which grated _Rustan_’s Ears. _What do you think_, says he, _that you have got ~Buda~, ~Gran~, ~Alba Regalis~, and other ~Hungarian~ Towns, from the Christians by Force? No, I deny it utterly; ’tis our Dissention that gave you Opportunity to take them: If there had not been continual Wars between the Kings of ~France~ and ~Spain~, you would have been so far from possessing those Towns, that ~Charles V.~ would hardly have suffered you to live quiet at ~Constantinople~ it self._ At which Speech _Rustan_ was so provoked, that he told him, _What dost thou tell me of the Kings of ~Spain~ and ~France~? If all the Christian Princes join their Arms together against my Master, he cares not a Rush; he will easily conquer them all._ And thereupon he withdrew himself into his Bed-chamber, and bid the Ambassador be gone. I must needs acquaint you, in this place, with the Relations I have heard concerning that People which inhabit the _Tauric Chersonese_, who are reported to have been originally _Germans_, as their Speech, Manners and Countenances seem to declare. I had a great desire to meet with any body of that Nation, from whom I might procure some Tracts written in that Language, but I could not obtain it; yet at last I met with an Accident which in part satisfied my Desires. There came two Envoys from that Nation to the Sultan, to make some Complaint or other; and my Interpreters lighting upon them, did (as I had desired them, if ever they had Opportunity) invite them to Dinner to my House. One was a tall Man, carrying an ingenuous Simplicity in his Countenance, so that he seemed either a _Flemming_ or a _Batavian_: The other was shorter, of a well-set Body, and browner Colour, a _Greek_ by Birth, but