AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1571. 



The nine and twentieth day of May there came 

 towards us from Candia a Fregat or Pinnace, the which 

 giving us great hope and lightening of ayde, encreased 

 marvellously every mans courage. The Turks with great 

 travell and slaughter of both sides, had woonne at the 

 last the counterscharfe from us, with great resistance and 

 mortalitie on both parts. Whereupon they began on the 

 other side of the fift battery to fill up the ditch, with 

 the earth that they threw downe, which was taken neere 

 the wall of the counterscharfe. But all that earth and 

 falling downe of the wall made by the shot of their 

 artillery, was caried away of us within the city, all our 

 company labouring continually aswell by night as day, 

 untill our enemies had made certaine loope-holes in the 

 wall, thorow the which they flancking and scouring all 

 the ditch with their harquebussie, stopped our former 

 course of carying, or going that way any more, without 

 certaine and expresse danger. But M. Giovanni Mar- 

 mori, a fortifier, had devised a certaine kinde of joyned 

 boords, the which being caried of the souldiers, defended 

 them from the shot of the Harquebuzers, so that some 

 other quantity of earth, but no great store, was caried 

 also away : in the which place this foresayd fortifier was 

 slaine, who had done especiall good service in all our 

 necessary affaires. And our enemies having cast so much 

 earth into the ditch, as filled it up againe, and made it 

 a firme way to the wall of the counterscharfe, and casting 

 before them the earth by little and little, they made one 

 traverse even unto the wall on two sides in all their 

 batteries, the which they made thicke and strong with 

 woolpacks, and other fagots, to assure themselves the 

 better of our flanckers. 



When they had once possessed the ditch, that they 

 could not be hurt of us but by chance, they began foorth- 

 with to cast and digge out undermines to undermine 

 the Brey, the Turret of Santa Nappa, the Commander 

 of Andruzzi, the Keepe of Campo Santo, the Cortaine, 

 and the Turrion of the Arsenall : so that being able no 



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