[Footnote 64: Quatre cens mil homes ou plus, Villehardouin,
No. 134,) must be understood of men of a military age. Le
Beau (Hist. du. Bas Empire, tom. xx. p. 417) allows
Constantinople a million of inhabitants, of whom 60,000
horse, and an infinite number of foot-soldiers. In its
present decay, the capital of the Ottoman empire may contain
400,000 souls, (Bell's Travels, vol. ii. p. 401, 402;) but
as the Turks keep no registers, and as circumstances are
fallacious, it is impossible to ascertain (Niebuhr, Voyage
en Arabie, tom. i. p. 18, 19) the real populousness of their
cities.]