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124 MALUS. 
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supported by armed positions on too small a scale, was 
surprised in the night by a sortie of the troops from the 
town. The heads of our soldiers carried into Jaffa were 
paid for by their weight in gold. The head of Malus, 
however, did not figure in the number of these bloody 
trophies, for. the sole reason that at the moment of the 
silent invasion of the battery by the Turks he was asleep 
in one of the angles of the entrenchments. The breach 
having been opened, and the garrison not having answered 
to the summons made them, the troops advanced to the 
assault to the sound of the bands of all the regiments. 
Here I will no longer abridge, but copy :— 
«“ The enemy was overthrown, discouraged, and retired, 
after a sharp firing of musquetry from the houses and 
forts of the city; they kept their ground, however, at 
some points, and continued their fire for an hour. Dur- . 
ing this time the soldiers, scattered through all parts, 
killed men, women, children, old persons, Christians, and 
Turks ;—every thing that bore the human form was the 
victim of their fury. 
“The tumult of carnage, the broken doors, the houses 
shaken by the noise of the firing and of arms, the 
cries of the women, the father and child overthrown one 
on the other, the violated daughter on the corpse of her 
mother; the smoke of dead bodies burned in their gar- 
ments which had been set on fire, the smell of blood, the 
groans of the. wounded, the cries of the conquerors dis- 
puting together over the spoils of their expiring prey, 
infuriated soldiers responding to the cries of despair by 
exclamations of rage and redoubled blows; lastly, men 
satiated with blood and gold, falling down in mere weari- 
ness on the heaps of corpses ;—such was the spectacle 
which this unfortunate city presented until night.” 
