442 DESTRUCTION OF THE GEEEK EMPIEE

text, that it may be taken as beyond doubt that after a strong southerly wind has been blowing in the Marmora for four or five days — and it was such a wind which had brought the ships from Chios — there would be in the Marmora and the Bosporus near Seraglio Point a strong current setting in the same direction, and the ships would drift toward the Galata shore. It would then be quite possible to have got within a stone's-throw, as Phrantzes relates, and for their crews to have heard the reproaches of the sultan.