Note 48 — Chapter III · LIFE IN CONSTANTINOPLE
Reading edition
Henry Blount’s Voyage into the Levant, in Pinkerton’s Collection, vol. x. p. 263; Thevenot’s Travels into the Levant (Eng. Tr., 1687), Part I. pp. 27, 92; Malloch’s Finch and Baines, p. 58. More than two generations later, the famous French renegade Comte de Bonneval could keep an establishment including six wives and twenty horses at less than 20 sequins, or £10, a month. See his Mémoires (Paris, 1806), vol. ii. p. 339.