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once stood, kindled a -smoke, according to theexpress instructions he had received from the grandmaster, ultimate signal of the loss of St. Elmo;which the savages observing, and all the hundredsof corpses on the ground (for none had ours beenable to bury since many a day), a loud commandwas heard for Janissaries and Spahis to hurry in,to consummate the butchery of the Giaours, whocould no longer hurt them. Then with shouts todeafen the air, in rushed the crescents, and foundmen only half alive. Yet, even in that hopelessstate, heroic were the deeds of several of the knightsand highly generous. Honour, though but a word,to their expiring feats! Aged Eguaras, desperatelywounded as he was, seized a lance, and limpingadvanced resolutely, and with the brightest courageopposed the first Janissaries that dared pass thedoor of the fortress. But few instants, and ascimitar cuts the bailiff 1 s white head sheer off. SirPaul Avogadro, of Novara, to prevent the savagesfrom, in cold blood, putting him to some strange,atrocious, ignominious death, darted forward likean enraged lion, and chased them wildly out bythe breach, wounding them wofully, until he washurled down headlong into the ditch.

Nine knights alone, and these too severelywounded to be able to make the slightest defence,