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 walk into the eat, and lie perdue at the ources of the Nile. While he was deliberating with himelf on this difficulty, prince Iidor of Paros, who held of the Depot of the Cyclades at Naxos, arrived for the purpoe of celebrating his nuptials with Mis Irene, iter to the fair Callita. Great preparations were made for the rejoicings, which were to conclude with a plendid tournament. The hero from Swabia felt his antient military courage roued at this news. He was a ufferer both from diappointment and litlenes; of coure he wanted diverion, and expected to find it at the appointed games, to which knights of every country were invited by proclamation in the market-place of the city, and at all the cros roads. In his own country he had no pretenions to enter the lits; and had he preumed to intrude among the knights, he would have been infallibly expoed to public corn and mockery. But at this ditance he thought he ran no rique by inveting himelf, under Rh