The sultan, accompanied by one of his sons and by his courtiers, is seated on a throne in the imperial pavilion in the upper right corner of (83b) while the grand vizier and his steward are sitting in individual tents outside. In the foreground, two Egyptian acrobats are putting on a show atop a wooden platform being carried by four other troupe members. Behind them, another performer is balancing glass vessels on a wooden cross carried on his head. In (84a) one performer is balancing two huge earthenware jars set on a glass vessel that he carries on his head as he leads the way before Hajji Şahin, who is standing on one foot on the head of Hajji Mehmed while he sticks his other foot in his own mouth. A line of janissaries beginning in the lower right corner and extending to the middle of the frame separates the spectators, including a group of women, from the field.

One of the captives, "a miserable creature with a ring about his neck and chains about his ankles" declared that he could carry out the sultan’s command without the need for scaffolding or anything else and that the silver vessel would be set atop the mast before the day was through. In return, he asked for his freedom. Word of this reached the grand vizier who had the captive brought into his presence. Through interpreters the captive was asked to repeat his claim and request and when these were confirmed before witnesses, İbrahim Pasha immediately issued a written order for the captive’s release, contingent upon his carrying out what he proposed to do.

The captive repeated this process to the growing astonishment of all until he reached the top of the mast. Once there:

When the captive’s conversion was reported to him, İbrahim Pasha commanded that the man be made the captain of a galleon with a salary of 90 aspers a day and that he also be dressed in a complete outfit of new clothes. The same day, the new convert joined that day’s procession of boys and was circumcised in the circumcision tent.