Note 20 — CHAP. III. RESIDENCE OF THE MISSION AT BUSHIRE.

When Amurath I. instituted the Janizaries, a celebrated Dervish pronounced this blessing over the new corps: “Let them be called Janizaries (Yengi Cheris, or new soldiers) may their countenance be ever bright! their hand victorious! their sword keen! may their spears always hang over the heads of their enemies! and wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face.” Gibbon’s note illustrates the text by the Roman phrase, Hic niger est, hunc tu, Romane, caveto. Vol. VI. p. 320, 4to.