March XIX
His Excellency had audience of leave of the mufti, a reverend person about seventy years of age, somewhat corpulent, of an insolent and proud aspect, well learned in the Turkish law and polity, and formerly hogia to the present Sultan. He is extremely covetous, and at the same time prodigiously rich, having hoarded, as it is said, one great part of the current gold of the empire, and likewise purchased many vast and extensive possessions about Erzerum and Trebisond, which is his native countrey.