text:  The brave Yusuf returning to Constantinople at the end of the year was at first received with the highest honours by Ibrahim but soon after put to death in one of his fits of senseless cruelty; but the Ottomans in Crete under the gallant leadership of Delhi-Hussein who now became _serdar_ or commander-in-chief overran and occupied the inland districts almost without opposition from the Greek inhabitants in whose eyes any alternative was preferable to the bloody tyranny under which they had so long groaned:[15] while the Venitian garrisons shut up in the fortified towns along the northern shore depended for supplies on the Christian fleet which the Turks did not venture to bring to action