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best and most trustworthy soldiers collected together. He 

 selected the Modeliares, Araches, and Disawas who were 

 to command these levies, paying them and giving them 

 favours in order that he might have some hold on them ; for 

 he concluded that the defence and safety of a kingdom con- 

 sisted not only in having soldiers and militia, but also in 

 having them both rich, honoured, and contented. The King of 

 Candia seeing so many preparations made in peace time, knew 

 that it was the action of a prudent Captain, and began 

 to prepare quietly for war, and to gird himself up against 

 the breaking of the peace which he had established with Don 

 Nuiio Alveres Pereira, and which with all that his predecessor 

 had bequeathed him was looked upon with more than ordi- 

 nary hatred by the Governor. It had so seriously damaged 

 the reputation of the Portuguese that the new General did 

 not feel himself justified in continuing the peace, especially 

 when fame had proclaimed him a man of valour and a 

 renowned soldier. This mistrust had increased the under- 

 hand dealings which the hostile Zingalas are in the habit of 

 using, sowing distrust on our friendship and poisoning the 

 ears of that Prince — for he was afraid of the General — declar- 

 ing that he treated merely to get hold of him and kill him. 

 For being by nature great in the art of lying and spreading 

 enmity, under the cover of fraud, all their study was to 

 conquer their adversaries more by artifice and stratagem than 

 by force of arms and manly courage : thus they continually 

 published and sent about letters (which they called olas) so 

 false that they filled the most faithful subjects we had with 

 suspicion, and gave confidence to the wavering — an artifice 

 which had already lulled the people's minds to rest, and had 

 so often caused mischief and rendered useless the greatest 

 efforts to counteract. 



For example, if Pericles had not left his property in the 

 hands of the Athenians, when the Lacedemonians were 

 setting the neighbourhood of Athens on fire — if it had been 

 preserved it would have made him an object of suspicion to 

 the Republic, and his reputation would have been at stake : 



