[31] _Istakbal_, a ceremonious procession to meet any great man.
[33] Rashid had been supplanted by his brother Hassan, and applied to Khair-ad-din for assistance in regaining his kingdom. Khair-ad-din, eager to add Tunis to his other possessions, induced Rashid to accompany him to Constantinople, under the pretence of obtaining the aid of the Ottoman arms. On their arrival there, Khair-ad-din communicated his designs to the sultan, who immediately gave orders for the preparation of a fleet. Rashid already considered himself restored to his kingdom; but just as the fleet was about to sail, he was seized by the command of the sultan, and was never after heard of. Such was the _provision_ made for him at the Sublime Porte!
[34] _Tabor_, a Polish word, signifying a wall or fence made with the baggage, carriages, &c.
[35] _These islands._ In the text the word is جزاير by which also Algiers is called; but it being also the form of the Arabic plural of جزيره an island, and the Turkish plural, جزيره لر occurring a little after, I am inclined to think that the islands of Majorca, Minorca, &c. are meant.
[36] In the original it is Majorca, but from the context this appears to be a mistake, which indeed might easily be made, the difference between [Arabic:] and [Arabic:] being small. Hammer in his “_Geschichte des Osmanischen Reichs_,” in a note on this event makes it Minorca.
[37] Literally “_rubbed his face against the royal stirrup_.”
[38] Literally, “_the battle market having been kept hot from morning till afternoon_.”
[41] According to Rycaut, Prevesa had just been taken by the Patriarch Grimmanus, who had the command of the Pope’s galleys. The grand fleet had left this place before Khair-ad-din’s arrival.
[43] The numerical value of مات رئس البحر is 953.
[44] A work on navigation, of which further mention is made below, p. 72.
[45] If these are the barges mentioned at p. 72, this should of course be read _fifteen_.
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