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tie the captives, and got vast multitudes of stakesmade, that were to inflict deaths of torture. Ithad been decreed that every male and female aboveten years old was to be put to death, or impaledalive; no exception, but all mortals above that age.The children, without distinction of sex, to becarried into slavery, and brought up Mahometans . 1The city to be sacked, and its rule reserved tothe sultan. But, frustrated in their atrociousdesign, they scampered off like a flock of sheep.Nine thousand of them are said to have beenkilled in the suburbs by our artillery, and an in-numerable quantity wounded. Amongst those whodied of their wounds were German Balse , 2 and acertain son-in-law of the Grand Seignor. It endedby the Tui'ks burning their stores, and retiringabout a mile from the city, and embarking whatremained of their machinery and heavy baggage,and sending some into Lycia, which consumeda few days; and back-beaten, and with marks of

i A very remarkable part of the dress of the Moslem going tothe assault is the knot of small ropes hanging from every man’sgirdle, to tie his prisoners. At Rhodes are said to have beeneight thousand stakes stuck up all round the city. The boysto be given to the snltau for his Mamelukes, or kept by thesoldiers for themselves; the females to the harem.—Bosio : par.ii., lib. xii.

0 r Primanus Bassa, as others (perhaps properly) read.—Seb. Paoli: Osservazioni, ii. 552.