"
"I don't mean to bother my tongue with it at all. As I pronounce it it
is--Djihan."
"Djihan? Who is Djihan?"
"Djihan is the Voivode of Wallachia."
"Very well, you shall have it so. And what do you want for yourself, my
son, eh?"
Musli was inscribed in the list as the Aga of the Janissaries, but he
was too modest to speak of himself.
"Don't trouble your head about me, Kabakulak, while there are so many
worthier men unprovided for. We want the Khan of the Crimea deposed and
the banished Kaplan Giraj appointed in his stead."
"Very well, we will inform Kaplan Giraj of his promotion presently."
"Not presently, but instantly. Instantly, I say, without the least
delay."
Musli accompanied his eloquence with such gesticulations that the Grand
Vizier thought it prudent to fall back before him.
"Don't you feel well?" he asked Musli, who had suddenly become silent.
In his excitement he had forgotten the other demands.
"Ah! I have it," he said, and sitting down on the floor at his ease, he
took the list from his bosom and extending it on the floor, began
reciting Halil Patrona's nominations seriatim.
The Grand Vizier approved of the whole thing, he had no objection to
make to anything.
Musli left Janaki's elevation last of all: "He you must make Voivode of
Moldavia," said he.
Suddenly Kabakulak went quite deaf. He could not hear a word of Musli's
last demand.
Musli drew nearer to him, and making a speaking-trumpet out of his
hands, bawled in his ear:
"Janaki I am talking about.
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