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A12609	The Ottoman of Lazaro Soranzo VVherein is deliuered aswell a full and perfect report of the might and power of Mahamet the third, great Emperour of the Turkes now raigning: together with the interestes and dealinges which he hath with sondrie other princes, what hee is plotting against the state of Christendome, and on the other side what we may practise and put in execution against him to his great damage and annoyaunce. As also a true description of diuers peoples, countries, citties and voyages, which are most necessarie to bee knowen, especially at this time of the present warre in Hungarie. Translated out of Italian into English, by Abraham Hartvvell.; L'ottomano. English.	Soranzo, Lazzaro.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. 1553.	1603 (1603)	STC 22931; ESTC S117656	132,559	234

men and trampled with horses Beesides that the Walachian and the Moldauian who beeing as tributaries to the Turke ought to minister vnto him all the helpe that possibly they can yet at this present they will faile to doe it the Walachian beecause hee is vtterly alienated from him and the Moldauian because hee hath enough to do to furnish himselfe The Turkes may also conuay some vittailes out of Macedonia and Seruia two Prouinces that are woont to bee verie plentifull of corne which they may easily do because the Country is partly plaine and partly hilly but without any stones They may also take the same way of Salonicchi by passing through the Champaines of Moraua in Seruia not farre from the most fertile plaines of Cossouo which our writers do call the Champaines of Black birds by reason of the great multitude of them that were seene there before the battaile wherein Amurath the first was slaine Whereupon I do note by the way that the ancient writers were in an errour whiles they thought that a man coulde not possibly passe through all the Mountaines of Macedonia and Seruia considering that they are verie easie to bee passed excepting onely that part of them which out of Epirus entreth into Macedonia for that is in deede vnpassible with carriages Now touching the point how to hinder the Turkes vittailes that they may not be conueighed and brought into those Countryes where the wars now are I doe thinke that it will proue a verie difficult and hard matter for vs Christians to bring it to passe either by sea or by land The vittailes of Asia which come out of Aegypt and are embarked at Alexandria Damiata and other places cannot be impeached or stayed without an Armada or a fleete of shippes nor without fighting also with the fleete of the enemie Besides that the Arcipelago where this must specially and principally bee attempted hath many channels And by land they can be stopped but in one only case vnlesse the Turke might bee debarred and kept out of his owne Countrey which is the hardest thing of all And this onely way is for the Transiluanian togither with the Walachians to passe ouer to the hither side of the Danowe and interpose themselues betweene Bulgaria and Seruia which in times past were called the two Misiaes And yet when all comes to all there is no remedie but we must looke to fight and therefore it will behoue vs to haue a verie mightie armie in a readinesse Moreouer euerie Spahi is bound to bring to the campe one load of corne for his owne vittaile All the Sangiacchi doe send thither Meale Barley and Graine when and as much as they can And all the villages also are bound to send a certaine quantitie of Barley whensoeuer they are commaunded And in Belgrado there is ordinarily made great store and prouision of Bisket Meale and Barley § XXXV IT is verie true that the Turke cannot set forth his armie towardes the warres before the grasse bee growen or rather not before haruest-time as well in regarde of the prouisions as I haue told you which the Spahi others are bound to bring to the camp as also because it is necessarie that both men and cattell should haue good meanes to maintain them selues in the field yea and so much the rather for that the armie is verie populous as indeede all the Turkish Armies are for the most part of people of horses and of Camels whereupon it falleth out also that that they cannot long bee maintained nor stay togither by great heapes and multitudes in one place by reason of their great expences Out of Scopia they haue some little store of Rice whereof the Turkes doe make themselues a peculiar kinde of pottage they haue also some quantitie of it out of Alexandria and other places whither our Marchants do vse to transport it § XXXVI THey haue great aboundance of flesh-meates al their Countrey ouer specially where their souldiers meete togither and goe to warre namely of Muttons and of Beeffes which are as a man may say innumerable in those huge and wide Champaines where they feede and pasture yea and so much the more store of them they haue because the Moldauian is content that the Turkes shal passe through their Countrey with their cattell their honie and their Butter in regard of the great custome and toll which they gaine of them for the passages therof Although to speak the truth there doth not now passe that way so great a multitude of Muttōs as in time past there hath done because there was not heretofore so good a riddance of them into Polonia as now there is Which in deede is no small griefe and displeasure to the Turkes who doe vse to eate the flesh of Muttons with great delight and verie sauourly whereas on the other side they do not so greatly care for the flesh of Beefes The Turkes also vse to carrie with them a certaine kinde of salt poudred flesh which being beaten into powder serueth them for a verie great nourishment especially if they mingle it with their pottage or broath and this meate they call Tzorba § XXXVII ANd now to their drinke It is most certaine that there want no good waters ouer al the country where the warres are And for water it ought not to seeme a straunge drinke for the Turkes considering that by their law they are bound to drinke it as the Carthaginians also do and as for Religion sake likewise it is vsed to bee drunke by the inhabitants of the Kingdome of Tarsus which on the East confineth and bordereth vppon Cataio and is famous in the holy Scriptures for the three wise kinges that came from thence to worship Christ. But what a great aduauntage it is to the Turkes to haue this commoditie of water let them consider that haue conuersed and practised with the Dutche although at other times also as Tacitus writeth they vsed to drinke at the Well-head certaine it is if we mark the matter well that Mahamet their Law-giuer did for none other cause so straitely commaund his followers that they should so precisely abstaine from wine but onely because that hauing throughly resolued with himselfe to haue his law defended with force armes he thought it conuenient by meanes of sobrietie to make them as fit and apt for the wars as possibly he could And besides that also he did inthrall them to the imaginary opinion of the gouernment of Destinie to the end hee might make them the more obedient to their Captaines and the more resolute in fight He also ordained that they should often wash themselues to the ende that his Armies might the more easily bee kept cleane and free from those euils and diseases which do ordinarilie breede of filthinesse and likewise make them the more able to endure the hardnesse and distemperature of the weather with other such like policies The Turkes also

in respect of the great enmitie which is betweene that king and the Queene of England who doth greatly ease that warre by troubling him in his state of Portugall by intercepting his treasures of the Iudies and by sacking his kingdomes as particularly she did at the Groine which is a place of verie great importance to annoy Spaine to disturbe the nauigation of the Indies and also to attempt diuers other places in that other nauigation of the Ocean Moreouer that he was so farre interessed in the wars of France that he could not wholy turne himselfe any whither else To bee short that suppose he be reconciled and at peace with the said princes so that with more safetie and ease hee might attend this principall enterprise in tended against him yet might the Turke damnifie him in his Spices and other Marchandizes yea and if neede were he might diuert him into the Red-sea otherwise called the Persian Gulfe by meanes of the Gallies that lie so conueniently and commodiously for that purpose at Suez or hee might surprise some good fortresse of his as was attempted against the Portingales for Diu and Ormuz and as Alfonso d' Albuguerque the Portugall Viceroy in the Indies thought once to haue done when he meant to haue stollen away the bones of Mahomet by a sodaine incursion into the Countrey with certaine light horsemen euen as farre as Mecca and as it was done at other times while the Soldans reigned and also as Tratan the Emperour was minded to haue done in his time Againe that the passages into Africa might be much troubled especially if the Turke would set vpon the Spanish coast in the Mid-land sea which would bee a great contentment to the subiects who doe continuallie make humble petition and supplication for it as well in regard of the safetie of their traffique and pilgrimages as also that the poore Moores might once bee deliuered from the dominion of the Spaniard as Selim at the lest was perswaded to haue done And so much the rather for that the said Moores who are now multiplied into a great number although they keepe close both for feare also for their traffique whereby they are growen to bee verie rich yet as well by nature as also for Religion doe beare a mortall hatred against the Spaniards Moreouer that this course might easily bee performed by reason of the conueniencie of the hauens in Africa which lie neer at hand and also because the said Princes of Fraunce and England haue offered to continue their warres with him the King of France by disquieting him in the parts of Nauarra for the chalenge which hee hath thereunto and the Queene of England as it hath beene said not onely by setting vpon him in the West Indies and in the Ocean which she may doe both by North and by West but also by raising againe some new stirres in Portugall where there doth not want great store of Mal-contents For that people doth thinke that with the losse of their last king they haue also lost all their wealth and prosperitie because that as vnder his gouernment they grew rich by the peace that he intertained with the said princes of France and England so vnder the Spaniards dominion they do find that by the warres they liue in continuall perils and daunger Againe there be many banished and discontented persons not onely of the kingdome of Portugall but also of the kingdome of Aragon in France in England and in Constantinople who togither with many Moores which also were in Constantinople haue offered many aydes and helpes both secretly and openly and haue promised that the enterprise will be verie easie when so euer Spaine shall be set vpon especially if it bee done vpon a sudden For the greatest part of that kingdome doth want the vse of militarie knowledge because the people of that Countrey do not applie themselues to armes neither are there any ordinarie bands of Souldiers ouer all the realme and but a small number of horses neither Moreouer that the Subiects which Spaine sendeth forth into the Indies into Flanders and into Italie are so manie in number as they doe greatly weaken it yea so much that if occasion should so fall out it should not onely want helpe of their owne but also should stand in need to be relieued with the ayde and assistance of other states that are neere vnto them and subiects of the same crowne who peraduenture would proue to be of no great good seruice and so much the lesse because they may easily be stopped and diuerted some other way § X. THe fift opinion was to breake the peace with the state of Venice For this said they which endeuoured to perswade the great Turks mind thereunto rather with apparent reasons then with such as were true in deede though peraduenture euery man easily beleeuing that which he desireth they might seeme verie probable and likely to the Turkes that no enterprise happily would proue lesse hard and difficult then this as it might be found by the experience and examples of such actions as had passed heretofore especially seeing the Turkes not many yeares agoe hauing warred with the Venetians and surprised somewhat of theirs had receiued many and great satisfactions at their hands to make peace with them That the said Common-wealth State of Venice accounting peace to be the end wherat it shooteth it should seeme that the people is timerous and cowardly and by their ancient ordinances and customes do neuer prepare themselues to war but when they are drawne vnto it by force that peraduenture they will thinke to be ouercome before they looke for it as it fell out with them for the kingdome of Cyprus That if the said state would make resistance by it selfe alone perhaps it hath not forces sufficient if ioyned in confederacie with others it could not performe any great matter in haste by reason of the many difficulties that depend vppon leagues and namely of the seuerall cogitations and interestes wherewith the Spanish king is now intangled in regard whereof it was inforced at last to make peace with Selem Moreouer that it was a hard matter if not impossible that the said king being so greatly occupied in his other warres could at this time ioyne in league with that state and also that without him all other confederacies to ake warre by Sea were of no importaunce or consideration And as for the Pope though it be very likely that he will do al that possibly he can do to keepe the Christian princes from annoying the said state but rather will aduertise and admonish them to ayde and succour it yet the most that he can doe himselfe is onely that he may yeeld it some assistance either of moneys or of some Ecclesiasticall profites or else peraduenture hee may send to ioyne with their Armada his fiue Gallies which togither with the Gallies of Malta of Sauoy and of Florence can

Bahera in olde time Bactra and are called Ketzie-Bassi because they weare Caps covered with felt It is not long ago since the said Vsbegh died and left behind him a sonne who may now be about some twelue yeares of age Geilan is also a Countrey more toward the East of the Caspian sea Moreouer that he need not to make any doubt of victorie considering the good successe that he hath had heretofore That hee had no cause to feare their Harquebuses for they had but few and the Turkes can better handle them then the Persians nor yet their horses although they were of the Arabian and Caramanian race the relikes of Amurath the second for they had many times and often bin put to flight for verie cowardise And lastly that hee could not doubt least the Gurgini so doe the Turkes call the Georgiani in times past the Iberi should make any stirre in aide and fauour of the Persians For part of them are his owne Subiects and vnder the iurisdiction of the Bassaes of Teflis and of other places thereabouts after they were made Bassalucches by Mustapha part also of them are his tributaries and it is well knowne that the rest are contented to liue vnder their Lordes Simon and Alessandro without attempting to seek better fortunes but to defend their owne Countrie Which although it be but small and not verie hard to be kept and defended yet is it verie strong by situation and almost vnpassible for the Mountaines for the Woods and for the straite places that compasse it about § VII TOuching the second opinion which was for the bending of their forces against the Siriffo in Africa it was thus debated That it was a great dishonour to the Ottoman Empire that they had not as yet ouerthrowne and subdued those Moores That it was as great a shame that they had so small a portion in Africa considering that it was the third part of the world and being so neare vnto Italie did so greatly vexe and trouble the Romanes That Algier and Tunise would neuer be secure nor the Subiects and Sea-rouers thereof satisfied vntill they had gotten the full rule and dominion of that kingdome That if they wholy reduce into their power and possession the Cape of Aguero and the Hauen of Araza or Larace which indeede is situate without the straite and not within it as some haue written places verie fit and conuenient for the English that get many booties in those seas as also for diuerse others both friends and enemies to the Moores the Turkish nauigation should be thereby the more secured That this king of the Moores although he be a Mahometane and a Tributarie to the Ottoman Empire yet verie lately he had held secrete intelligence with the King of Spaine and also with the knights of Malta who by means thereof were like to to haue taken Tripoli and that hee had likewise maintained and assisted the insurrection of Marabut and of his successour That though he were mightie for men yet he was poore in mony And lastly that although the Spaniards do holde in Africa Maraschebir Oran the Pegnon Tanger Arsilla Mazagan and Ceuta or Septa and therefore may combine themselues with the Moores to the great domage of the Turkes yet notwithstanding they might bee brideled with an Armada of shippes and by passing also if need were euen into Spaine And withall that the examples of Tunise and Goletta which was held to be impregnable and yet was taken by Sinan to his exceeding glorie were so fresh in memorie that they could not choose but remember them § VIII TOuching the third opinion which was for the sending of an Armada to conquer the Isle of Malta it was said that considering the Mahometanes both in their traffikes and also in their pilgrimages as they went to Mecca receiued most notable losses by the Gallies of those knightes the great Turke ought to commaund that in any case order might be taken to secure that voyage not onely for religions sake but also to bee auenged of the trespasses and wrongs alreadie done vnto them or rather to recouer the glorie of Soliman who in vain and without any good successe attempted to surprise it That all the Subiects cried out and Exclaimed for the inlarging and deliuerie some of their friends some of their kinsfolkes that were there in captiuitie saying that so did their forefathers when they spoyled and depriued the same knights of the Isle of Rhodes the chiefe fortresse and defence of the Christians in the East Moreouer that they deserued due chasticement also aswell because they had furnished those that rebelled against the grand Turke in Africa with munition of warre as also because they endeuoured to surprize Modone on a sodaine § IX TOuching the fourth opinion which was to moue warres against the King of Spaine it was said that if the Ottoman Empire were determined to attaine the Monarchie of the whole world it was not possible to be atchieued vnlesse the mightines of that Prince were first weakened who without al doubt was the greatest both for state and riches that Christendome had That it could not be feared least the said King of Spaine should assault Algieri for that it was now a great deale better fortified then it was in the time of Crai the Spaniard for so by a Sclauoinetearme the Turks of the Court do call Charles the fift That although Spaine should take courage to enterprise such a matter in regarde of the losses which it receyueth continually by the Pyrates of Africa yet it would be restrained from so doing for verie feare least it should bring an Armada of enemies into those seas who might peraduenture endomage it greatly That the Spanish Gallies would not hazard themselues to come into the Leuante because they woulde not bee so farre from home Moreouer that the resolutions of that King either in regard of his many businesses or in some other respect are verie slowe And as it is manifestly seene by that which they did at Preuesa and Nauarino the Spaniards doe vtterly refuse euen for their owne commoditie and benefite to encounter with the Ottoman forces That the said King of Spaine walketh with great cōsideration for if it be true in the latter end of the Persian war he denied to aid the king of Persia when hee might haue succoured him as before he had done That although he would peraduenture stirre in defence of himselfe and his state against the Turkish forces yet he could not so doe in deede considering that he is so greatly occupied in the maintenance of Flanders and recouerie of the lowe Countries which are verie strong both in regarde of the Sea flouds and of the many riuers that are therein and so much the more troubled hee is by reason of the obstinate and constant resolution of that people for the preseruation of their libertie and religion and likewise