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were about rushing again to the assault), “ Letthe sword of the Lord separate their souls fromtheir bodies, their trunks from their heads, liberatespirit from matter. Oh ye who believe in one soleGod, now is your time! Your perspiring enemiesare delivered into your hands. Bind them not!Soil not your hands with touching them, but cleavethem to the earth! Too nauseous to touch! Theirvery touch would blister you. The canine idola-ters must be thrust down into Gehenna! Soldiersof Paradise, penetrate into their accursed den andspare nothing; not yourselves, much less theGiaours! Hesitate, and they require more venom!This is your day of judgment, 0 infidels! AllahKeram!”

Which truly caused a momentary verbal alter-cation soon to be followed by deeds too horriblefor words, and on the Christians raising a shout,thus the Moslem: “ No shouting, Giaours, till out

of the wood !”—“ But you heartless Paynim, youmangy dogs, there are no woods here; but as muchof arid rock as you like! On which, by the blessingof God, your bones shall bleach and your flat skullsbe found by future generations and exhibited bychirurgeons as a curiosity.” 1

The Spanish knight who had the dispensing of1 Sob. Paoli : Serie ii.