AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1571. 



them to defend that gate of the Citie. Who assoone 

 as they had encouraged their Souldiours, sallying 

 swiftly foorth, killed, and put to flight the greater 

 part of them, and at the last giving fire to the mine 

 of the fiancker slew foure hundred Turkes, and Sig. 

 Baglione at the same time woon an Ensigne of our 

 enemies, wrasting it violently out of one of the 

 Ensigne bearers hands. The day following they gave 

 fire to the mine of the Cortaine, the which thing not 

 [II. i. 126.] falling out greatly to their purpose, they followed not 

 their prepared assault. Wherefore they beganne to 

 fortifie, and advance higher their traverses in the 

 ditches, for their better assurance against they should 

 give the assault : and they had emptied and carried 

 away all the earth neere unto the counterskarfe, where 

 they lodged in their pavillions, so that we could not 

 descrie them. They shot seven pieces of artillery 

 upon the wall of the counterscharfe so covertly, that 

 they were not seene : two from the Brey of the 

 Turrion of Santa Nappa, one from Andruzzi, and two 

 other all along the battery of the Cortaine. And they 

 came with certaine boordes covered with rawe and 

 greene hides, under which they brought their men to 

 digge in the vaimures, we being nothing behinde or 

 forgetfull to cast wilde-fire amongst them, and some- 

 time to issue foorth of our sallies called Posternes, to 

 offend their Pioners, although to our great hinderance. 

 And we still repaired the vaimures by all meanes 

 possible, with BufFe skinnes, being moist and wet, 

 throwing in also earth, shreads, and cotton with water, 

 being well bound together with cordes : all the women 

 of Famagusta gathering themselves together into com- 

 panies in every street (being guided of one of their 

 Monkes called Caloiero) resorted dayly to a certaine 

 place appointed, to labour, gathering and providing for 

 the souldiers, stones and water, the which was kept 

 for all assaults in halfe buts to quench the fire, which 

 the Turks threw amongst them. 



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