Early modern traveling was of course full of dangers. A short enecdote I came across today. On September 22, 1689, David Aboab of Constantinople (Istanbul), Ruben Jacob of Russia and Jacob Valentinoski of Podolien (in Ukraine), made a statement before an Amsterdam notary about Mordochaij Serfati, son of the prominent and rich merchant Juda Serfati of Constantinople. Mordochaij had recently arrived in Amsterdam. On his journey from Constantinople to Buda (Budapest) Mordochaij 'had been plundered by Ongaren [Hungarians] and Polacks and they had taken away and robbed everything he had with him'.