ABEYANCE THE THIRD.

Drives from our darling homes, 1 forlorn exiles1523 su< ^ en ty> an< l nearly naked, without theleast one of those comforts to whichhuman creatures are used, tossed into the wildwaters in the depth of winter, in small crazyvessels, pell-mell we went rolling about in a darktempestuous sea, without knowing where we were,or whither we were carried, during ten whole days.Eew were the knights of the order that outlivedthat dreadful siege. The vast majority of the fleetwere Rhodians—the greater the resemblance toilineas—yet had not L’lsle Adam neglected to sendfor the knights in the islets, St. Peter’s of theFreed, and fortresses, and forts, to join him inCandia.

At last some of us, on the seventh of January,

1 Fontanus : 376, &c., &c.