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CHAPTER VI.

L’Isle Adam, when at Paris he learned hiselection , 1 instantly united a body of horse, and rodeto take leave of the King of France, then in hiscamp, on the confines of Burgundy , 2 and hasteningto Nice, embarked, and after various perils, amongstwhich was that of passing unseen through a famouspirate fleet, laying in wait for him by the Turk’s(unavowed) connivance, arrived at Rhodes, Avherespies from the Moslem kept a sharp scrutiny. Aphysician in Constantinople, a Jew, as he had beenaccustomed under Selim, also continued under hisson, to give him secret intelligence from Rhodesin letters with a Greek acting there as spy, andwho informed him that one of the chief walls in

1 Fontamis: 344.—Bosio: par. ii., lib. xviii. 520.—Seb.

Paoli : Serie, ii. 472.

2 Robertson: Charles V. ii. 181.