Quote by William Deans

““Every corner of the island was ransacked; every human being that could be found, was slain or carried into captivity. Nothing was to be seen in the once smiling land but heaps of ruins, and a few ghastly inhabitants, wandering in a state of starvation among them. Ninety churches and forty villages were delivered to the flames; twenty-five thousand persons, chiefly full grown men, had been slain; forty-five thousand women and children had been dragged into slavery; and fifteen thousand had escaped into the neighboring islands in the last stage of destitution and misery, where the greater part of them died of grief or starvation. For several months, the markets of Constantinople, Egypt, and Barbary, were so stocked with slaves, that their price fell a half; and purchasers were attracted from the farthest parts of Asia and Africa, whither the Greek captives were scattered.””

— William Deans