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We will turn from the fictions they have left us which, alas! have but too often been preferred by subsequent writers to the true facts which lay just as ready to their hands, but of course were less sensational and we will consider instead the evidence of those contemporaries who do, at least, know the time and place of Djem's decease.
Moreover, they entirely overlooked the circumstance that, for Djem's death in the hands of France, the Pope could make no claim upon Bajazet. Finally though the danger be incurred of becoming tedious upon this point they also forgot that, years before, Bajazet had offered such bribes to Charles for the life of Djem as had caused the Knights of Rhodes to remove the Turk from French keeping.
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