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marry any man that would save them. 1 In thesurf thousands and thousands perished.” 2

It is said sixty thousand Christians fell then, andmay be no exaggeration. Of the rich, who escaped,not at that time, but weeks sooner, it is much tocalculate them at twenty-five thousand, mostlywomen, and children, and invalids. And it canbe hardly supposed that the carried into captivitycame to another twenty-five thousand. And thisleaves one hundred thousand, of whom nearly allmust have died either during the siege, or at the finalhour, and fifteen thousand, at most, can have fallenin those fair battles; leaving eighty-five thousandfor ultimate butchery. All which is on the sup-position of the correctness of the usual opinion thatAcre contained one hundred and fifty thousand soulswhen Tripoli fell.

“On! On! You as you like, but I must notstop. But we are close to the shore. Stout topush through such a crowd. Yet even women cando much when desperate, and children themselves,as you now see, for most of these are such. Ah,what their frenzy and wail! And not few of theinfants are killed by the press and the carelessnessof their own mothers. And now the infuriatedUelhis, and the likes, are cutting at them with1 Michaud.: Hist., y. 143. 2 MS. Accon.