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posed over favourable to his own order. But infact he only spoke like the others. He Knight ofMalta; they were both reciprocally worthy of eachother. No more, and the eulogium of both is per-fect. It was on Sunday morning, the 7th of Octo-ber, that the two fleets met in awful conflict twohours after daylight—not on the 1st, as related bysome moderns. The original pieces still exist. Youhave only to read them. The Capitana di Maltawas not in either wing, but No. 6 in the centreof the line of battle. 1 Why leave out Contarini’swords? “ The Prior of Messina, a Giustiniani,Admiral of the Capitana di Malta , was so badlywounded that he was all but killed!” Of knownvalour, he saved the lives of several. 2 But -^^2alas! the grand master, under whom so manyfine things happened, died on the 20th of Januaryin 1572, as his gravestone shows ; 3 and was succeededby that Cassiere, whose heroic feats on the coast ofBarbary have been noted. Leaving France in 1522as a volunteer, on his way to the siege of Rhodes,

1 Sansovino: Hist, dei Turchi, 480.—Impresa del Regno diCipro di G. P. Contarini etc.

2 Tet dreadful the carnage ! Of the Christians were hilledseven thousand six hundred and fifty; and thirty thousand ofthe Turks, writes Galucci, best authority on that subject.Tentori: ix. 286.

3 Seb. Paoli : Serie, ii.

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