text:  for misconduct in the government of Bagdad! with the marvellous addition (worthy of Ovid's _Metamorphoses_ ) that from the sticks used for his punishment and planted by his sorrowing tutor sprung the grove of Tchibookly opposite Yenikouy! History will show that Selim and Bajazet never met after the accession of the latter except when the rebellious son met the father in arms at Tchourlou; and it is well known that Bagdad did not become part of the Ottoman empire till the reign of Soliman the Magnificent the son of Selim