text:  "In this manner " says Rycaut writing not in a spirit of prophecy three years only before the battle of Vienna "expired the action of the year fortunate in its success to the Turks; for though they gained but thirty acres of land with expense inestimable of blood and treasure yet the glory and fame which attended it being the consummation of twenty-five years' war and the theatre where the whole world were spectators was of greater value to the Turks than any other consideration and may with time prove a place of advantage to the further increase of their western empire unless God Almighty by his mercy and providence give a stop to the progress of this grand oppressor