_ 287 _ Grand Turk. When he Jafar Sultan had listened to the Turk, he returned with others whom he the Grand Turk sent for this purpose, with a large present for Shah Tahmasp. These men killed Sultan Bayazit and the three sons he had with him by strangling them with bowstrings, and took them dead in chests to Constantinople. Some claimed that a Persian Moor who looked very like him had been killed by him, but that he was in hiding, awaiting the death of his father, in order to attack his brother with great force. The Turk had two or three more sons killed, but, as this is a story outside our compass, we shall not narrate it. He does the same to vassals and pashas when they deceive him. To resume, it is enough for us to know that this is the nature of the doctrine of which they are believers and guardians. That is the nature of all their affairs. Our Lord will permit their ruin and destruction through his infinite mercy and by the agency of Christian princes, in conformity with the just principle which, with His aid, they have exercised against him the Turk this year in the war in Malta. In this city of Tabriz there live also a few Christians. They are European farmers and artisans of manufacturing trades, and Armenian merchants in large-scale commerce
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