text:  Unlike most of the imperial family he was of a spare sinewy form and lofty stature; and his features are said by Evliya to have been remarkably handsome though his forehead was disfigured by a deep scar which he had received in his infancy by being thrown by his father in an access of brutal passion into a cistern in the gardens of the seraglio; and a contemporary Venetian chronicler says that his dark complexion and vivid restless eye gave him rather the aspect of a _Zigano_ or gipsy than an Osmanli