He had then and there determined that as soon as he returned to Rhodes he would take the matter up in a very different spirit to that in which he before approached it.

He had on the way home spoken to Sir John, who had highly approved of the determination.
"I myself, when I was a young knight of eighteen, was taken captive, twenty-six years ago, at the time when the Egyptian fleet appeared before Rhodes.

Our galleys advanced to attack them, but under cover of night they retired, and proceeding to the mainland took shelter under the guns of a Turkish fort.

We attacked them there; it was a desperate engagement, but without any decisive advantage on either side.

We lost no less than sixty knights, the Egyptians seven hundred men; and their fleet returned to Egypt.