JOURNEYS IN DIVERSE PLACES 37 



how the poor patients died, for want of food and other 

 necessary things. 



One day the enemy feigned a general attack, to draw 

 our soldiers into the breach, that they might see what we 

 were like: every man ran thither. We had made a great 

 store of artificial fires to defend the breach; a priest of M. 

 le Due de Bouillon took a grenade, thinking to throw it at 

 the enemy, and lighted it before he ought: it burst, and set 

 fire to all our store, which was in a house near the breach. 

 This was a terrible disaster for us, because it burned many 

 poor soldiers; it even caught the house, and we had all been 

 burned, but for help given to put it out; there was only 

 one well in the castle with any water in it, and this was 

 almost dry, and we took beer to put it out instead of 

 water; afterward we were in great want of water, and 

 to drink what was left we must strain it through napkins. 



The enemy, seeing the explosion and violence of the fires, 

 which made a wonderful flame and thundering, thought we 

 had lit them on purpose to defend the breach, and that we 

 had many more of them. This made them change their 

 minds, to have us some other way than by attack: they 

 dug mines, and sapped the greater part of our walls, till 

 they came near turning our castle altogether upside down; 

 and when the sappers had finished their work, and their 

 artillery was fired, all the castle shook under our feet like 

 an earthquake, to our great astonishment. Moreover, they 

 had levelled five pieces of artillery, which they had placed on 

 a little hillock, so as to have us from behind when we were 

 gone to defend the breach. M. le Due Horace had a can- 

 non-shot on the elbow, which carried off his arm one way 

 and his body the other, before he could say a single word; 

 his death was a great disaster to us, for the high rank 

 that he held in the town. Also M. de Martigues had a gun- 

 shot wound which pierced his lungs: I dressed him, as I 

 shall tell hereafter. 



Then we asked leave to speak with the enemy; and a 

 trumpet was sent to the Prince of Piedmont, to know what 

 terms he would give us. He answered that all the leaders, 

 such as gentlemen, captains, lieutenants, and ensigns, would 

 be taken prisoners for ransom, and the soldiers would leave 



