As I promised you, at parting, to give you a full Account of my Journey to _Constantinople_, so, I shall now make good my Word; and I hope, with Advantage too. For, I shall also acquaint you with my Adventures in my Travel to _Amasia_, as well as That to _Constantinople_, the _former_ being less used, and consequently far less known, than the _latter_. My Design herein, is, to allow you a Part of the Solace, of what happened pleasurable to me; for so the ancient Friendship betwixt us obliges me, to appropriate no Joy to myself, without communicating the same to you; but, as for what happened incommodious to me, (as, in so long and tedious a Journey, some Things must needs do) those I take to my self; neither would I have you concerned in them at all; for, the Danger being now past, the more grievous they were to suffer, the more pleasant will they be, even to myself, to remember and commit to Writing. Upon the Receipt of his Letter, _Ferdinand_ was at a stand; he did not fully believe, nor yet altogether disbelieve him; he was inclined to suspect, that the Memory of his _former_ Sufferings, and the Fear of _future ones_, did deter him from that Employment, rather than the Danger of his Disease; and yet, on the other side, he did not think it creditable for himself to employ a Man that had so well deserved of him and of the Commonwealth, in any Service against his Will. But the Death of _Malvezius_, which followed a few Months after, did sufficiently convince him, that his Disease was not pretended, to decline the Employment, but was really a Mortal one. Upon this, I was substituted in the Place of _Malvezius_: But, being unexperienced (as I said before) in the Affairs and Manners of the _Turks_, King _Ferdinand_ thought it adviseable for me to bestow a Visit upon _Malvezius_ in his Sickness, that so, by his Directions and Advice, I might be better cautioned and armed against any Impositions of the captious _Turks_. Two Days I staid with him, which was as much as the straitness of my Time would permit; and I husbanded them so well, as to be informed by him, what I was to act, and what to avoid, in my daily Convention with the _Turks_.