When The Emperor Dodsi[3] Heard Of The Slaughter Of The Four Friars, He Ordered The Melich To Be Brought Bound Before Him, And Questioned Him Why He Had Cruelly Ordered These Men To Be Slain.

The melich endeavoured to justify himself, by representing that they had exerted themselves to subvert the laws of Mahomet, against whom they had spoken blasphemously.

The emperor thus addressed him; "O! most cruel dog! when you had seen how the Almighty God had twice delivered them from the flames, how dared you thus cruelly to put them to death?" And the emperor ordered the melich, and all his family, to be cut in two; sentencing him to the same death which he had inflicted on the holy friars. On these things coming to the knowledge of the kadi, he fled out of the land, and even quitted the dominions of the emperor, and so escaped the punishment he had so justly merited.

[1] The whole of this and the following section is omitted in the old English of Hakluyt, and is here translated from the Latin. - E.

[2] Probably he who is named above Tolentinus. - E.

[3] Probably the same called, at the close of the former sections, Daldili, and there conjecturally explained as the King of Delhi. - E.

SECTION IV.

Of the Miracles performed by the four Martyrs.

It is not the custom in that country to commit the bodies of their dead to the grave, but they are exposed in the fields, that they may be consumed by the heat of the sun.

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