Thus, Sir, I have given you an account of my Journey, both to _Constantinople_, and also to _Amasia_. I have not dress’d up my Narrative with Flowers of Rhetoric, but have presented you with it, just as I would have related it to you by Word of Mouth. I know you will bear with the Coarseness of my Style, it being occasioned by my over-eager Desire to gratify you; nor can you well expect Elegancy from me now in my Heat and Throng of Business, which I was never Master of in my greatest Retirements. This I assure you, both for your Information and my own Content, that I am not conscious to myself of any Falshood in the whole Narration, which is the principal Ornament of such Relations as these. Thus I bid you Farewell. _Vienna, September 1st._ _SIR_, I received your Letter, wherein you acquaint me, that you have heard of my second Voyage into _Turkey_; on which Account you express your Wonderment, that I would venture to visit that uncouth and barbarous Country, once more. And withal, you desire to know the Issue of my Journey: How I found Matters at my Return to _Constantinople_; what Entertainment I met with there; what proportion of Health I enjoy; whether my Life be pleasant to me, or not; and, in fine, what Hopes there may be of my speedy return to _Germany_. To all which you oblige me, upon the score of our ancient Friendship, to give particular and express Answers; which, to gratify you, I shall accordingly do. Know then, in the first Place, that you were not mis-informed as to my Return into _Turkey_; the thing is most true: Neither could I avoid the Journey, as being oblig’d thereunto by Promise; and you know every honest Man is as good as his Word. My Case was this: The Emperor _Ferdinand_, my most gracious Lord and Master, designed me as his Lieger Ambassador to _Constantinople_; but his Design was grounded on this Supposition, that a Peace would be first settled betwixt the two Empires. Articles of Agreement, however, being not yet fully accorded to, nor wholly rejected, there was no reason I should slip my Neck out of the Collar, till the Matter was brought to some certain Issue; either a firm Peace, or a perfect Rupture. And therefore, when I foresaw what a Bushel of Troubles I should run my self into, by my Return, I had much rather a fitter Person had been substituted for the Employment; but no body being willing to accept the Charge, I was, in a manner, forced into the Service; it being my Duty to comply with, and obey, the Will and Pleasure of my gracious Master: For as soon as ever he return’d from the Imperial Diet to _Vienna_, and was informed by me of my Transactions with _Solyman_, the _Ottoman_ Emperor, he immediately laid his Commands upon me to prepare my self to return, and to carry back his Answer to _Solyman_’s Letters. ’Tis true, it was the depth of Winter, when I was commanded to return to _Constantinople_; and, besides, ’twas a very