Country, and to take Care that I might be honourably treated by the Way: That he was the first Man that offered me the least Affront; and that I was sending back one to _Constantinople_ to complain thereof; and if I did, it might cost him his Head. This took down my _Janizary_’s Crest, and put him into a terrible Panick besides. The next Day we continued our Journey to _Buda_; and the Physician, notwithstanding his Bruises, was as well able to travel as any of us. When we came in Sight of _Buda_, the _Bashaw_ thereof sent some of his own Family, with several _Chiauxes_ to meet us; and among the rest, there was a Troop of young Men on Horseback, which drew our Eyes after them in respect of the Novelty of their Garb; their Heads were uncovered, and their Crowns shav’d; there was a long Line cut with a Knife, and in the Wound they stuck Feathers of several Sorts; and, though Drops of Blood distilled down from their Wounds, yet they dissembled their Pain, and rode merrily on, as if they ailed nothing at all. Just before me, there walked some Footmen; one of them had his naked Arms a-kembow, and both had a Knife, (such as we call _Pragensian_) run through them above the Elbow; another was naked, all the upper Parts, to his Navel, the Skin of his Loyns being so cut in two Places, both above and below, that a Club being run through them, hung down from thence as from a Girdle; another had a Horshoe nail’d to the Crown of his Head, and it was so old, that the Shoe and the Skin grew together. In this Pomp we entered _Buda_, and were introduced to the _Bashaw_, with whom, in the Presence of _de Sande_, I had a long Discourse concerning the Validity of the Truce I had made. In the Passage to him there stood those hardy Youngsters who were regardless of their Pain; casting my Eye upon them, the _Bashaw_ demanded, what I thought of them? I think, said I, that they are hardy Fellows; only they do that to their Skins, which I would not do to my Cloaths, for I had rather have them whole than slash’d. Whereupon, the _Bashaw_ laughed, and dismissed us. The Day after we came to _Gran_; from thence to _Comara_, the Frontier Garrison of the Empire, situate on the River _Wage_; on both sides its Banks the Garrison of the Place, with the Seamen, called their _Nassadists_, waited for us. Before I passed over the River, _de Sande_ came to me, and embracing me in his Arms, gave me Thanks for completing his Liberty: He told me plainly, he thought the _Turks_ had but dissembled with him, and therefore, he was in continual Fear, lest he should be haled back to _Constantinople_ to die in Prison; but now, being in the Emperor’s Territories, he acknowleged himself to be eternally obliged to me.