cruell enemie, who, glad to have the author of all his troubles with the Turks delivered into his hands, cast him in prison, and that Solyman nor any other should in his behalfe further prosecute the warre, or by his means hope for victorie, caused him to be in prison murthered. In this expedition against the Persian king Solyman was occupied a yeare and nine months: all which time the Turks endured great troubles and were oftentimes hardly distressed by the Persians; untill, at last, Solyman himselfe, wearie of that tedious warre, wherein he had got neither honour nor profit, thought it best to make an end; and thereupon returned againe to Constantinople in the yeare 1549.” [689] Mahomet Khodabundah Mirza, Prince Mahomet, the slave of God. [690] Afterwards Shah Abbas, the Great. [691] The Pasha of Erzeroum. [692] When he came to the throne he gave way altogether to debauchery. [693] Hyder Mirza. [694] Judges. [695] Sherf Beg. [696] Khunneydec Kurds in the Bohtan mountains, near Mosul, tribesmen of Sherf Beg. [697] Bitlis. [698] Ikhlat, Arjeesh, Van, Ardel, Jiraz, Pergri, all on the Van Lake. Ikhlat was the summer seat of the Akkoniloos, and its burial ground is full of the tombs of their chiefs. [699] Hyder Mirza. [700] Hyder Mirza. [701] Called then the Shat-ul-Arab. [702] Basrat or Bassora. [703] Baku. [704] Shirvan. [705] Yezd. [706] Herat. [707] Ghilan. [708] Nakshivan. [709] Schamachi. [710] Kasween. [711] See Angiolello. [712] Moldavia. [713] Alcocke, or Anthony Jenkinson, who came with a letter from Queen Elizabeth to Shah Tamasp in 1561. [714] Shirvan. [715] Khorassan. [716] Bayezid, the son of Suleyman, after his rebellion in 1556, fled for safety to the Court of Tahmas, who received him with favour at first; but, his mind becoming embittered against him, caused his followers to be dispersed and slain, and Bayezid himself to be cast into prison. Suleyman used all the means in his power to have Bayezid delivered into his hands, but Tamas would not consent; but afterwards, in consideration of a large sum of money, agreed to allow him to be made away with. Bayezid, accordingly, was strangled, with his four sons. (From Augerius Busbequius Legationis Turcicæ, epist. 4.) [717] Diarbekr. [718] Orfa. [719] Mardin. [720] Bir. [721] Aradh el Jivaz and Bitlis. [722] Kashan. [723] Baiboort. [724] Lentul Ogli, or Levent Ogli. [725] These I suppose to be the Kizzilbashes of the Deyrsun and Kara Dagh, near Marash. They are still inveterate enemies of the Turks, though inhabiting their territory. Their religious tenets assimilate more with the Persians. ERRATA AND NOTES. Page 5, Note, _for_ “taneel”, _read_ “tawil”, long. Uzun means long in Turkish, and Zeno is right in giving it the secondary sense of great; the Turks claim Artaxerxes Longimanus to have been of Turkish race, because with them long arms are esteemed a sign of power and greatness. Page 8, _for_ “Ikindjis”, _read_ “Akinjys”.