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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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pany of his own dear knights. Then no doubt itbecame our habitual usage to sleep armed on theparapets.

The Turks encountering so desperate a resistance,could not be induced the whole of the next night toattack us anew. But at dawn, the pasha havinghung out the signal for assault general, his armyrushed forward with three shouts, the loudest everheard. Not to me only (says Bosio), but also tothe best writer in the world, it would be impossibleto relate properly the many heroic deeds in thatday and the two following! nor of any one in par-ticular, but of every one who fought there on thosedays, the same may be truly said, and deeds ofsuperhuman heroism are to be ascribed to everyone of them; nor is that asserted on any other au-thority than the very highest. Five similar assaultswere given to St. Michael’s, with similar results.Proclamation was made next, that the sack of thewhole city and all it contained were all allotted tothe troops by the Grand Seignior’s orders, reservingnothing to himself, with the sole exception of thegrand master’s person . 1

These continuous assaults made many think thepashas had determined a universal massacre, as atSt. Elmo; yet even with that belief, only two of

1 Bosio : par. iii. 646.