ARRIVAL AT CAIRO OF PRISONERS OF MINICH
Book XIV.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

Illus -69 Tissue

ARRIVAL AT CAIRO OF PRISONERS OF MINICH

Every day an emir, by the sultan's orders, entered this abode of despair, and caused two or three hundred prisoners to be dragged out of the enclosure. They were asked if they would adjure the religion of Christ, and those whom the fear of death induced to sedert their faith, received their liberty ; the others were put to the sword, and their bodies were cast into the Nile. They were slaughtered during the night ; silence and darkness adding to the horrors of the execution. At length the lassitude of slaughter caused those that remained to be spared. They were led away to Cairo ; and the capital of Egypt, into which they had flattered themselves they should enter in triumph, beheld them arrive covered with rags and loaded with chains. - Book XIV

Notes; page 133- to 138 Christian slaughters at Almoadam's hands 138 139 Octai, the mamelukes exclaims that Almoadam was no more, . . . request Louis XIV to make thee a knight

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