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He moved along the coast to the west, relieving Kissamos, a seacoast walled town to which a band of Greek volunteers had, in an insane effort, laid siege, and, sweeping families and combatants together before him, drove them all into the high mountains, where the snow had already begun to fall.
Hussein Avni took no steps against the insurgents, but an impatient subordinate commander, with a division, made an attempt to penetrate into Selinos, and, being beaten, ravaged the plains about Kissamos, hitherto unmolested. Whole villages, which had submitted without resistance, were plundered, the women violated by order of the officers, in some cases until death ensued.
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