[Footnote 74: The Mingrelian ambassador arrived at
Constantinople with two hundred persons; but he ate (sold)
them day by day, till his retinue was diminished to a
secretary and two valets, (Tavernier, tom. i. p. 365.) To
purchase his mistress, a Mingrelian gentleman sold twelve
priests and his wife to the Turks, (Chardin, tom. i. p.
66.)]