276 THE HISTORY OF THE ORDER OF [hook hi.

close to Samos? 1 The question then is, which wasof the writer of the Apocalypse? for that is the onewhich belonged to the Hospitallers.

Nizara (Porphyrus), famous through all theLevant for its mill and building stones, had beenlikewise noted for its hot baths, and for its de-licious fruit of all sorts, soon became as it were asecond Rhodes, having a beautiful town, oramentedwith marble columns and statues, in signal abund-ance; and afterwards a grand cross of the orderresided there, and it rose to be a bishop’s see,suffragan of the Rhodian Archbishopric. 2

After which review, in the company of AnthonyDe Beck (who it is doubtful whether he was or wasnot a member of the order, but then Papal legate,and at one time Bishop of Durham), 1 Villaret re-turned to Rhodes eager to indulge in a life ofluxury and repose from his devoirs. But that wasnot yet to be, and the pirates who had escaped, hadroused their Mahometan brethren of Asia Minor—among whom a thriving Tartar horde, and it ispossible with some Comnenian blood. Yet thecelebrated Ottoman had to retreat; although the

As in Mr. Murray’s recent Map to his “ Handbook inthe East.”

3 Seb. Paoli: Notiz. Geogr., ii. 502.

Cod. Dipl. Geros , ii., Hum. xviii.—Seb. Paoli: Osserva-Moni, b. 527.