The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-12

fest myself unto him" and Will make
him sit together with me in my Faith
er's kingdom.
throwing the angry water from their
bows. their decks black with mailed
men, their frowning sides perforated
with primitive guns, rapidly ap-
preached, crashed, quivered, and were
locked in mortal combat. Don John
Immediately pushed his heavily armed
galleases to the front and as the Turks
swept abreast of them, their terrible
broadsides belched forth a storm of
fire and shot that carried death, ruin
and CONSERVATION among the advance
ships of the enemy. The crafty Ali
Pasha, deeming these novel craft i'm
pregnable, caused his center to diverge
and pass them. Admiral Barbarigo, in
command of the left wing of the allied
forces, had taken up position some
distance from the land, supposing that
the shoal waters between him and the
shore would prevent him from being
outflanked. His judgment was good.
but his knowledge of the local sur
roundings was defective. The Viceroy
of Egypt. who was more familiar with
the surrounding waters, saw the mis-
take of the Venetian admiral, and by
bold dash succeeded in thanking and
doubling up the left wing of the allied
forces This placed them between two
fires which in a short time wrought
terrible execution. Early in the tight
Barbarigo was mOrtally wounded While
gallantly directing and leading this
terribly unequal struggle, but his brave
Venetians, with valor worthy of their
best traditions, fought on with I'M
abated fury.
On the extreme right of the Christian
line, the crafty old corsair, Ulutch Ali.
attempted to accomplish the same feat,
but was met by seaman worthy of his
strategy in the Genoese admiral, An
drew Doria. The latter quickly di-
vined the purpose of the Turk and eff
fectually defeated it. Doria soon null
lifted this success and all but lost the
division under his command. In an eff
fort to prevent himself from being out
fanked, he extended his line too far.
thus weakening it to a notable de-
gree. Uluth was not slow to see the
fatal mistake; he swooped down on the
attenuated line, broke it, captured the
great Capitana and sank several of the
galleys.
Thus. with the right and left wings
crippled, and in imminent peril of de-
struction. the prospect was not hopeful
for the Christian cause.
In the center, where the battle was
fiercest. Don John was meeting with
but Indifferent success. He sought out
the Ali Pasha to engage him in dual
conflict. Both commanders espied each
other at the same time, and urged for
ward their galleys until they met with
a terrible shock. The erquebusiers of
Don John and the Turkish janizaries
engaged each other with terrible
slaughter. The arquebusiers inflicted
the greater damage, but this was multi
fed in a great measure by the reserves
which poured in from the Turkish
fleet.
The fight was now general. The
sound of crashing timbers, heartrend-
ing groans and shrieks that pierced the
innermost soul, prayers, cheers and
blasphemies, accentuated now and
again by the clarion notes of the trum-
pet inviting deeds of valor, swelled and
deepened by the roaring of the guns
all rose in terrible pandemonium. The
sea is splashed with clotted blood;
Christian and Turk toss side by side
on the crests of shoreward swells,
peacefully insensible in death to the
storm of human passion raging above
them. At the masthead Cross and
Crescent flap in the wind, Juggling at
their halyards as though they too were
anxious to engage in dual combat. On
the slippery, od-stained decks, strug-
Cling forms surge backward and for
ward in mortal conflict; the sun in hor-
rid mockery glints upon polished steel
of sword and scimiter for moment
poised in air before they are plunged
into wells of living blood.
On the left wing, the Venetians,
though surrounded and subjected to a
desperate cross-fire, fought on with
mi 1aGt their
desperate valor was rewarded; they
in beating off the enemy and
then assumed the aggressive. They
boarded one after another of the enc
my's vessels and put their crews to
the sword. The Viceroy of Egypt was
slain and his vessel sunk. The news
of this calamity spread CONSERVATION
his followers, and they fled be-
fore the victorious Venetians. Barba-
rigo lived to hear the news of victory
and died amid the shouts of triumph.
On the right wing, Doria's broken
line was saved from destruction by the
prompt arrival of the reserves under
the Marquis of Santa Cruz. Unable to
cope with these two skillful generals,
Ulutch Ali fed after having cut adrift
his prize, the Capitana.
The fight between the commanders
in-chief continued. Twice the allied
forces boarded, only to be repulsed
with great loss. Once again the trum-
pets rang out calling the boarders to
charge. AS they sprang upon the bull
warks they were again met by the jan
zaries with the grave Ali Pasha at |
their head. Before the last des-
oerate struggle was minute |
I'D, the Mohammendan commander fell. |
pierced by a musket ball. At the sight /
IF their stricken leader, the janizaries |
ceased to offer further resistance and |
led. At the same moment the Turkish
ensign was lowered and in its place
he Cross fluttered in triumph at the
peak
In four hours almost the entire Mos
EN- fleet had persisted. The Turks lost
5000 killed and 5000 were taken pris-
,ners. Twelve thousand Christian cap
ives were liberated from a living
leath. Not more than forty of the
Turkish galleys escaped destruction or
,apture. The entire Christian loss did
lot exceed 1850.
1t is difficult to overestimate the i'm
of this engagement AL
hough the battle lost no territory to
he Turks. it destroyed their prestige
o such an extent that many historians
late the decline of the Ottoman empire
rom the battle of Lepanto. Had the