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and most honourable dispositions of the knights,and all the popular demonstrations at his arrival,he saw evident causes for deep apprehension; thatif he ever took a walk in the island, he might becarried off by pirates; that even within the walls,in spite of all the care of the order, he might easilybe murdered by dagger or poison; that to besurrounded by Greeks, many of them renegadesand even several Mussulmen, who were mostlyspies and probably murderers, struck him withfear; that what dismayed him worst was the du-plicity of both sexes of Greeks—let alone Jews, whowould perpetrate any crime for money, and heknew Bajazet would purchase his life, at whateversum they demanded. And he repeated several timesthat he had not the smallest dread of the knights,on the contrary, reposed implicit confidence inevery one of them; but the Greeks, accustomed toall sorts of duplicity, treason, and murder,Avould notthe divan find them humble instruments ? Wouldhe not be the mark for each poisoner, each assassin’sdagger? Is this not too near the hotbed of crime?Ought he not take refuge in some distant land?Besides that he judged by the grand master, he hadoften heard of the generosity of the French, andnow that he was speaking to one of that nation,