CHAPTER XXI

RELEASE 339

CONCLUSION 355

APPENDICES 377

INDEX 409

_The portraits of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines are supplied by the Cambridge University Press by permission of Dr. Malloch and Mr. Wilfred Finch._

“_Under the Turk in Constantinople._”

ILLUSTRATIONS

Sir John Finch. From the Portrait by Carlo Dolci at Burley-on-the-Hill _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Sir Thomas Baines. From the Portrait by Carlo Dolci at Burley-on-the-Hill 42

Paul Rycaut. From the Engraving by R. White after the Portrait by Sir Peter Lely 53

Sultan Mahomet the Fourth, Emperor of the Turks. From an Engraving by F. H. van den Hove 106

Dr. John Covel. From the Portrait by Valentine Ritz at Christ’s College, Cambridge 372

Sir Dudley North. From an Engraving by G. Vertue, 1743 376