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entertained awhile, that he was among the prisoners,and a flag of truce went to the Moslem camp, butwas assured no such person existed there; so, nodoubt he was butchered. Upon this Noailles em-barked his remaining forces, and departed; notwith-standing all the dissuasions of Morosini, and hisprotest that it was to France the town owed itsdownfall. The whole was lost. And then onlythe small remnant of the Maltese likewise ascendedtheir ships. Yet at least some of them appear notto have sailed, but rather disembarked—being repre-sented as still on shore during the capitulation. Thelast reply of Noailles was, that if the French sally didnot succeed, it at least cost no other lives than French,and that France had spent enough of its blood atCandia, and of its most illustrious blood. All thatmortal courage and ability could do, was done atCandia. Few soldiers except the chiefs were Vene-tians, but of every Christian nation. What but ca-pitulate? and so they did on the 6th of September,upon terms generally esteemed honourable and advan-tageous , and certainly not disgraceful either to thevanquishers or the vanquished. And admirablewere the discipline and good faith of the Moslem;for during the twelve days allowed for departure,crowds of Turks sitting on the works, so near theChristians as to be able to touch them, kept quite