A.D. 

 I57I. 



* Carumusa- 

 lini be vessels 

 like unto ye 

 French Ga- 

 bards^ sailing 

 daily upon the 

 river of Bor- 

 deaux, which 

 saile w^ a 

 misen or tri- 

 angle saile. 



* Maone be 

 vessels like 

 unto ye great 

 hulks, 

 which come 

 hither from 

 Denmarke, 

 some of the 

 which cary 7 

 or 8 hundred 

 tunnes a piece, 

 flat and broad, 



which saile 

 some of them 

 with seven 

 misens a piece. 



* Palandrie 

 be great flat 

 vessels made 

 like Feriboats 

 to transport 

 horse. 



Nicosia, other- 

 wise called 

 Licosia. 



Sig. Braga- 

 dino was Pro- 

 veditore, that 

 is, Governour, 

 and Sig. Bag- 

 lione Ge7ierall 

 of the Chris- 

 tian armie. 



THE ENGLISH V^OYAGES 



besides a great number of * Caramusalins, or Brigandines, 

 great Hulkes called * Maones, and large broad vessels 

 termed of them * Palandrie, which continually passed to 

 and fro betweene Cyprus and Syria, and other places 

 thereabout, which they did with great speed, standing 

 in feare of the Christian army. And about the middest 

 of the same moneth the Turkes caused to be brought 

 out of the Citie of Nicosia, which they had woone a little 

 before, fifteene pieces of artillery, and raising their army 

 from whence they were before, making ditches and 

 trenches necessary, incamped themselves in gardens, and 

 toward the West part of Famagusta neere a place called 

 Precipola. 



The five and twentieth day of the same moneth they 

 raised up mounts to plant their artillery upon, and caused 

 trenches to be made for harquebuzers, one very nigh 

 another, approching still very neere the Citie, in such 

 order, as was almost impossible to stay the same, fortie 

 thousand of their Pioners continually labouring there the 

 most part of all the night. The intent of the enemie 

 being then knowen, and in what part of the Citie he 

 minded most to plant his battery, we tooke diligent heed 

 on the other part, to repaire and fortifie all places neces- 

 sary within. For the which cause wee placed a great 

 watch in that way, which was covered with a counter- 

 scharfe, and in the sallies of their privy Posternes, for the 

 defence of the said counterscharfe, there were new 

 flanckers made, also Traverses called Butterisses made 

 upon the Cortaine, with one trench of Turves two foot 

 high and broad, the which was made on that side of the 

 wall of the Citie, which was already battered with the 

 shot of the Turkes, with certaine loope holes for our 

 Harquebuzers, by the which they defended the counter- 

 scharfe. Two noble personages Bragadino and Baglione 

 personally tooke this charge on them, by the which 

 meanes the Christian affaires passed in very good order. 

 All the bread for our Souldiers was made in one store- 

 house, of the which the noble gentleman Lorenzo 



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