It Has Been Reported By
Some Who Were Present, That At One Time He Led An Army Of 40,000 Persians
To Battle Against The Turks, For The Purpose Of Restoring _Pirameth_ To
The Sovereignty Of Karamania, Whence He Had Been Expelled By The
Infidels.[5]
[1] Uzun-Hassan, as formerly mentioned, was prince of the Turkmans of the
white sheep tribe, and acquired the dominion of western Persia, by the
defeat of Hassan-ali prince of the black sheep Turkmans, who is
probably the person named Causa in the text.
- E.
[2] This is a mistake, Persepolis is supposed to have been at, or near
Istakar, above twenty miles N.N.E. from Shiras. - E.
[3] Diarbekir, with the cities of Arzunjan, Mardin, Roha, or Orfa, and
Siwas, are said to have been committed by Timour to the government of
Kara Ilug Ozman, the great grandfather of Uzun-Hassan, who may have
retained the original possessions of his tribe after the acquisition
of western Persia. - Mod. Univ. Hist. VI. 111.
[4] According to the authors of the Modern Universal History. B. VIII. ch.
i. sect. 3. Uzun-Hassan had seven sons: Ogurlu Mohammed, Khahil Mirza,
Maksud beg, Jakub beg, Masih beg, Yusuf beg, and Zegnel. Contarini
strangely corrupts almost every name that occurs. Uzun-Hassan, he
makes Unsuncassan; Ogurlu Mohammed, Gurlu mamech; Kalil mirza, Sultan
chali; Yakub beg, Lacubei; Maksud beg, or Masih beg, Masubech; and
omits three of the seven. - E.
[5] Uzun-Hassan is said to have been defeated in battle by the Turks, in
1471, near Arzenjan. - Mod. Univ. Hist. VI. 113.
CHAPTER III.
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY BY THE PORTUGUESE ALONG THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA,
DURING THE LIFE, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DON HENRY.[1]
INTRODUCTION.
The knowledge possessed by the ancients respecting India, will be the
subject of discussion in a future portion of this work. We have now to
contemplate the tedious, yet finally successful efforts of the Portuguese
nation, in its age of energetic heroism, to discover a maritime passage
to that long famed commercial region, some general knowledge of which had
been preserved ever since the days of the Persian, Macedonian, and Roman
empires. Of all the great events which have occurred in the modern ages,
previous to our own times, the voyages and discoveries which were made by
the Europeans, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries of the Christian
era, are justly entitled to preference, whether we appreciate the vast
improvements which they made in navigation, and, consequently, in
commerce, - the astonishing abundance of wealth which they brought into
Europe, - the surprising feats of bravery which were performed in their
various expeditions and conquests, - the extensive, populous, and valuable
territories which were subdued or colonized, - or the extended knowledge,
which was suddenly acquired of the greater part of the earth, till then
either altogether unknown, or very partially and erroneously described.
By these discoveries, we allude to those of the southern and western
hemispheres, a new heaven and a new earth were opened up to the
astonishment of mankind, who may be said to have been then furnished with
wings to fly from one end of the earth to the other, so as to bring the
most distant, and hitherto utterly unknown nations, acquainted with each
other.
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