Others were sold as slaves, or had to satisfy the rapacity of their persecutors with the bodies of their children.

Many flung themselves into the wells, and sought to bury despair in suicide.

The Mediterranean was covered with famine-stricken and plague-breeding fleets of exiles.

Putting into the Port of Genoa, they were refused leave to reside in the city, and died by hundreds in the harbor.[2] Their festering bodies, bred a pestilence along the whole Italian sea-board, of which at Naples alone 20,000 persons died.

Flitting from shore to shore, these forlorn specters, the victims of bigotry and avarice, everywhere pillaged and everywhere rejected, dwindled away and disappeared.