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Rhodes.” And an amicable altercation terminated,not as the prince said, but as the other wished.

To inform the princes of Christendom of Zain’svisit, ambassadors were sent, amongst whom twoEnglish grand crosses, Sir John Weston, thirty-first Prior of England, and Sir John Kendall,Turcopolier . 1

That Zain had a squint, was fat, and anythingbut handsome, may be true or not, neither is anywayssurprising, nor interests us, though by friendlyeyewitnesses . 2

But it soon appeared he was not safe at Rhodes,and on various occasions lie thought he saw thecolour of his amulet a little troubled. Next daythe grand master visited him in his apartment—theformer sitting in a chair, and the latter on cushions,as is the Oriental fashion. Particular in manythings were his habits. Whatever wine he drank,he mixed it with aromatics, which he thought sochanged it that he might drink it without anybreach of his religious observances. His usualbeverage however was what the French call eausiLcree. lie went almost daily to the sea, and thereundressing without the least shame stark nakedentered into it, and swam; besides which he tooka hot bath every day without fail; and, to refresh

1 Bosio : par. ii., lib. xiii. 367.

2 Caoursinus.—Seb. Paoli : Osservazioni, ii. 554.