AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1522. 



Then the enemies were warned by the Jewe that wrote 

 letters to them of all that was done and sayd in the 

 towne, that the sayd potgunnes did no harme : wherefore 

 they were angry, for they thought that they had slaine 

 the third part of our people : and they were counselled 

 by him to leave that shooting, for it was but time lost, 

 and pouder wasted, and then they shot no more with 

 them. It is of a trueth that they shot with the sayd 

 potgunnes 12. or 15. times with bullets of brasse or 

 copper, full of wild fire, and when they were in the ayre, 

 they flamed foorth, and in falling on the ground, they 

 brake, and the fire came out and did some harme. But 

 at the last wee knew the malice thereof, and the people 

 was warie from comming neere to them, and therefore 

 they did hurt no more folke. 



How the captaine Gabriel Martiningo came to 

 the succor of Rhodes, and all the slaves w^ere 

 in danger to be slaine. 



THe 24. day of the same moneth a brigantine arrived 

 that was sent afore into Candie, wherein came a 

 worthy captaine named Gabriel Martiningo with two 

 [II. i. 80.] other captains. And there went to receive him messieur 

 prou John prior of S. Giles, and the prior of Navarre. 

 Then after his honourable receiving as to him well apper- 

 tained, they brought him before the lord great master, 

 that lovingly received him, and he was gladly scene and 

 welcommed of the people, as a man that was named very 

 wise and ingenious in feats of warre. Then came a 

 Spaniard renegado from the host, that gave us warning 

 of all that was done in the field, and of the approching 

 by the trenches that our enemies made. 



And in likewise there arose a great noise in the towne, 

 that the slaves Turks that wrought for us in the diches 

 had slaine their keepers, and would have fled, which was 

 not so. Neverthelesse, the rumour was great, and they 

 rang alarme : wherefore the sayd slaves comming to 

 prison, as it was ordeined in al the alarmes, were met of 



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