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must be, since from both Christians and Maho-metans, that I should abstain from noticing it,were it not that it would be too dastardly in awriter to conceal what such authorities recount—Chalil, in the midst of his Mamelukes and Delhis,called upon the Chages (new sect of Moslemfanatics), and with most impetuous gesticulationsthus: “ You who entitle yourselves the devoted ofIslam, I call upon you to testify it by at once fling-ing yourselves into the ditch, that my Mamelukesmay ride over you! ” Nor did the Chages hesitate,but instantly ran and flung themselves into theditch, and the whole body of cavalry charged overthat pontoon of living human flesh . 1 Furiouslymad as the fanatics must have been, some similarmadness seems to have been infused by them intothe Mamelukes and their horses, since they rushedup the breach, though in doing so most of themwere necessarily killed. But their riders wereincited by the hope of sabring or lancing theChristians; and some few of them they may havebutchered; yet it could be but a few, for they soonmet again an insurmountable obstacle, even thicker

1 Michaud: Hist., v. 132.—Ebendorfer 3. De PerditioneAccharon Cmtatis.—Huratori.—Arsenius, who declared he wasan eye-witness of what he relates.—Bib. Crois., iii. 201.—Hist.,Gen. Concilii Lyons.