Note 1 — Chapter III
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The order of the Assassins prevailed in Asia, in the days of the Crusades, and the history of their power and terrible influence is strangely connected with the history of the Knights Templars. The founder of the order, Hassan Sabah, rewarded his devotees for their deeds of murder, by a draught (called as above, the hashish,) whose powers of enchantment consoled them for a lifetime of hardship and danger.