They were about to advance up the hill when a man appeared on the crest above them waving a white flag.

He was told to come down, and on his arrival said that he was sent by his companions to offer to surrender, on the promise that their lives should be spared.

The knights were well pleased to be saved the trouble of a long search through the woods, and the messenger left at once to acquaint the pirates that their terms were accepted.

In a short time some eighty men made their way down the hill.

On reaching the beach they were disarmed, divided equally between the galleys, and distributed among the rowers, filling up the places of those who had been killed by the fire of the Moslems, and of the men drafted into the prizes.