Seer aenmerkelyke reys-beschryving na Constantinopolen, en Egypten, gedaan in het jaar 1605, en vervolgen...

REYS-BESCHRYVINGE na Travelogue to

1605.

Schmid is sold for the third time.

Turkish Army, which lay stretched out a mile below Buda and two miles in length. Here I was sold to a horse dealer. This horse dealer, after I had been in his service for only three days, led me through the wide street of the camp and showed me many wretched, hewn-down bodies of Christians, who had also tried to escape from such a sorrowful and horrific slavery, but having been overtaken by these dehumanized barbarians, were sabered down and dragged into the camp to serve as a warning to others, where they were cast down. This sorrowful spectacle instilled such fear in me that I thought I would much rather perish in my bonds than run away. Schmid is sold again. After I, full of fear and distress, had pondered the cruelty of these people and the unhappy state in which I found myself, and my horse dealer saw that I took these things to heart, he said to me: "See now, you wretch, that your own foolishness does not lead you astray, and do not run away as these miserable people have done; for if you are overtaken, you will suffer the same, or perhaps even a worse fate." Hereupon he commanded me to follow him, which being done, he brought me before the tent of Husan Bassa, General of the Turkish Army, who had recently captured the city of Graen.

The tent of the Bassa described.

The tent where this Turkish military commander was, displayed something grand and very magnificent: for it was very high and occupied a great breadth. Outside, there was a courtyard, adorned on both sides with carpets, from which many silk flags protruded, and in the middle hung two horse tails These were the "tugh," the traditional standards of Ottoman military rank., being two high and painted poles, around which was painted and intertwined horse hair. Inside, the tent glittered with tapestries, where gold and silver were woven through them in such a way that one could not even know their color. These tapestries had no other imagery than stars and half-moons.