Discourse of Messer Giovan Battista Ramusio on the Writings of Giovan Maria Angiolello and of a Merchant who went Through the Whole of Persia; in which are Narrated the Life and Deeds of Ussun Cassano.

The King Assambei had a war with the Ottoman monarch on account of the kingdom of Caramania, to which both preferred a claim. This kingdom was anciently called Cilicia, but afterwards, and to the present time, called Caramania, from an Arab chief named Caraman, who, in course of time, had a descendant named Turuan, who had seven sons. Mustafa, hearing that Ussun Cassano was not there in person, and that in all, both cavalry and infantry, there were about fifty thousand men, taking leave of his father with Agmat Bassa, and a force of sixty thousand men, the greater part cavalry, set out against the Persians. Mustafa Bassa, seeing that all depended on him, with loud shouts and great valour began the combat, which being seen by the men of Natolia, at the head of whom he was, they got so enraged that they cut down the Circassians like grass in the most marvellous manner.