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CHAPTER Y.

Tiie war of Candia from its beginning in 1644,—when after the usual preliminary in Constanti-nople, of sending the Venetian bailiff suddenly toprison, the Moslem fleet sailed against Candia, 1 —lasted indeed twenty-five years; and was all thattime a sharp struggle, in which the order hadthroughout taken a great part, considering itnearly as much Maltese as Venetian, with goodreason too, if the Hospitallers were the real causeof it; but perhaps it was not exactly so. However,a recent Venetian repeats it, and that therewere six galleys under a knight of the FrenchLanguage, and that the sultana was among the

1 Pozzo : par. ii. 114.