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his abominable cowardice, reduced to the same state, and neverceased reproaching him as the cause of their misfortunes*.

* A Sicilian who had been settled for some time in Goza, preferring death toslavery, and dreading the consequences of the latter for his family, in a transport ofrage and jealousy stabbed his wife and two daughters to the heart. Being deter-mined not to survive them, he armed himself with a musquet and cross-bow, andhaving dispatched two Turks, rushed impetuously into the midst of the enemy,where, after wounding several, he at last met with the death he so eagerly sought.

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