Thus died this innocent and hopeful Youth. When the Eunuch had perpetrated this wicked Fact, he stole out at a Back-door, and fled as fast as he could. The Mother, soon after, beginning to smell out the Fraud, knocks at the Door; when they thought fit they opened it, and there she saw her Son sprawling on the Ground, his Breath being yet hardly out of his Body. Here let me draw a Vail; for a Mother’s Affection to a Son in such a lamentable Juncture, may be better conceived than expressed. Upon this dismal Sight she was hurried back to _Prusa_, where she tore her Hair, rent her Garments, filled the whole Town with Howlings, Moans, &c. The _Prusian_ Ladies, with their Daughters and Waiting-Maids, came in Multitudes to her, and were stark Mad to hear of so great a Butchery; and running in that raving Manner out of the Gates, all the Cry was, _Where’s the Eunuch? Where’s the Eunuch? Let’s have him to tear him to pieces_: But he foreseeing what would happen, and fearing, like another _Orpheus_, to be torn Peace-meal by those raging Furies, had cunningly withdrawn himself. But to return to my Purpose. As soon as I came to _Constantinople_, Letters were sent to _Solyman_, then at _Amasia_, to acquaint him with my Arrival; and, till his Answer was return’d, I had Leisure to take a View of the City of _Constantinople_; and first, I had a Mind to visit the Temple of St. _Sophia_, which I was not admitted to do, but by special Favour; for the _Turks_ think that their Temples are prophaned, if a _Christian_ do but put his Foot within them. That Church is a magnificent Pile, and a worthy Structure to behold. It hath a great Arch or Hemisphere in the Middle, which hath no Light but only from the Sky: All the _Turkish Mosks_ are built after the Form of this. Some say, that heretofore it was much larger, and contained many Apartments, which were all destroyed by the _Turks_, and only the _Quire_ and _Nave_, in the Middle of it, standing. As for the Situation of the City itself, it seemed to me, to be naturally placed as fit to be the Mistress of the World; it stands in _Europe_, and hath _Asia_ in view, and on its right, hath _Egypt_ and _Africa_; which, though Countries not adjacent to it, yet by reason of frequent Intercourse and Naval Commerce, they seem as it were, contiguous. On its left Hand is the _Euxin Sea_, and the _Palus Mætis_, whose Banks are inhabited round about by many Nations, and so many navigable Rivers have their Influx into them, that there is nothing grows in any of the Countries thereabout, fit for Man’s Use; but there is a great Conveniency of transporting it by Sea to _Constantinople_.