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XIV.] MOHAMMEDAN CRUELTY AND LICENTIOUSNESS. 241
villagers surrendered to them, professing their obedience
to the Sultan. It is said that, notwithstanding their
submission, one or two of them were put to death.
The majority of the inhabitants of Sarko had, however,
provided for their safety by taking refuge within the
cavern, the peculiar entrance of which rendered it abso-
lutely impossible for their fortress to be taken by assault.
The Mohammedans, however, approached the cave, and
one of them, who ventured rather nearer to its entrance
than the rest of the party, was shot by the Christians
from within. On this the Mohammedans returned to
Sarko, breathing vengeance on all those whom they
should find left in it. Thirteen Christians were be-
headed in the village, and ninety women and children
were carried off from it as slaves14. Both Khassan-
pasha and Sherif-pasha were greatly indignant at these
lawless proceedings of the other Pashas and the Cretan
Mohammedans. It was not, however, until Khassan-
pasha had actually threatened to declare war on the
whole body of the offenders, and their leaders, that
the women and children, who had been enslaved, were
restored to freedom, and were allowed to betake them-
selves either to the city15, or to the Christian places
of refuge up in the mountains.
14 Of the women twenty-eight were unmarried maidens : a!s etKoai oktu
Kop'iT^ait exaXaarav oi TovpKoi. The word exdXaaav is equivalent to eoia-
(pdeipav: on this usage of Siacpdeipw, see Phrynichus, p. 70. ed. Lobeck.
15 Where many of them were hospitably received in Mohammedan
families.
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villagers surrendered to them, professing their obedience
to the Sultan. It is said that, notwithstanding their
submission, one or two of them were put to death.
The majority of the inhabitants of Sarko had, however,
provided for their safety by taking refuge within the
cavern, the peculiar entrance of which rendered it abso-
lutely impossible for their fortress to be taken by assault.
The Mohammedans, however, approached the cave, and
one of them, who ventured rather nearer to its entrance
than the rest of the party, was shot by the Christians
from within. On this the Mohammedans returned to
Sarko, breathing vengeance on all those whom they
should find left in it. Thirteen Christians were be-
headed in the village, and ninety women and children
were carried off from it as slaves14. Both Khassan-
pasha and Sherif-pasha were greatly indignant at these
lawless proceedings of the other Pashas and the Cretan
Mohammedans. It was not, however, until Khassan-
pasha had actually threatened to declare war on the
whole body of the offenders, and their leaders, that
the women and children, who had been enslaved, were
restored to freedom, and were allowed to betake them-
selves either to the city15, or to the Christian places
of refuge up in the mountains.
14 Of the women twenty-eight were unmarried maidens : a!s etKoai oktu
Kop'iT^ait exaXaarav oi TovpKoi. The word exdXaaav is equivalent to eoia-
(pdeipav: on this usage of Siacpdeipw, see Phrynichus, p. 70. ed. Lobeck.
15 Where many of them were hospitably received in Mohammedan
families.
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