They, like true fatalists, submitted in silence; and their bodies were gathered together into a pyramid, where, after the lapse of thirty years, their bones are still visible whitening the sand.
Such was the massacre of Jaffa, which will ever form one of the darkest stains on the name of Napoleon.

He admitted the fact himself;--and justified it on the double plea, that he could not afford soldiers to guard so many prisoners, and that he could not grant them the benefit of their parole, because they were the very men who had already been set free on such terms at El-Arish.

To this last defence the answer is, unfortunately for him, very obvious.

He could not possibly have recognised in every one of these victims, an individual who had already given and broken his parole.

If he did--still that would not avail him:--the men surrendered with arms in their hands.