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the bastion of S. Joan* built high up with stones ; and 

 being the last battery near the harbour, it commanded the 

 harbour and the land side ; near to it is a big gate leading to 

 the town. Towards the land was a large bastion called 

 S. Stephan^ where likewise sixteen bronze guns were 

 placed. Then followed a small bastion called S. Sebastian^ 

 and near to it a great gate called the King's Gate, which leads 

 into the town. Not far away was another bastion called 

 Madre Des,\\ or the Mother of God. On all the bastions 

 round the town were bells to quickly make known every- 

 where what was going on. From the bastion Madre Des 

 a big brook runs past the house Hieronymus, where a battery 

 was erected with two guns charged with shot, and close by 

 was a small bastion called the Gapottin, after the monastery 

 of Capuchins close by. Further on stood the powder maga- 

 zine, and close to it a great bastion, Hieronymus, and again 

 a big gate called Mapan, with an arch above and guns at the 

 top ; at last of all the bastion S. AugustinfH so called after the 

 monastery of the Augustines. At the end of the ditch was 

 a stone rampart, called S* Jago, about eighty feet long, rising 

 up to a cliff upon which, as at Punte de Galle, a flag can be 

 hoisted. Outside the town were several monasteries ; the 

 first called Acqua di Lupo ; the second S. Sebastian, with a 

 small chapel ; the third, at a distance of a mile, Misericordia. 

 Near the monastery Acqua di Lupo was a fine residence, in 

 which the General took up his quarters. We others were 

 lodged partly in the monastery S. Sebastian and the sur- 

 rounding buildings, at half the distance of a cannon shot 

 from the town. In front, towards the town, we built in one 

 night a good rampart, so as to be safe against the enemy's 

 guns. Each workman was paid a rixdollar. 



* S. Jan (Dutch ed.). 

 t S. Steven (Dutch ed.). 

 % S. Selastiaan (Dutch ed.). 

 || Madre Dei (Dutch ed.). 

 8. Augustyn (Dutch ed.). 



