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had got in she would have acted the part of a well-trained 

 soldier. She was married to an honoured citizen, by name 

 Manoel de Sousa Bigodes, whom the gout rendered almost 

 helpless. 



We ordered the dead to be buried, and as there was a large 

 number, pits were dug outside the wall, which held many 

 wherever they were found, that they might not cause us 

 any contagion. The enemy, after having retired, remained 

 several days without making any movements, so that it 

 seemed to us that they meant to retire ; and there is no 

 doubt that if we had not had to give them battle, in which 

 we lost so many and such good men, and if we had had 

 these wherewith to sally forth against them, not one would 

 have escaped being put to the sword ; but we were so few 

 that we had not the garrison for the posts, and on this 

 occasion we had ninety 22 killed and wounded. After ten 

 days had passed in silence they re-commenced with the 

 batteries and advanced with the approaches, where they 

 set to work to form other new ones, there being six, all 

 at the bastion of S. Joao, and some of them along the ditch, 

 in which by night they placed a gallery, with the intention 

 of mining the bastion by means of it ; and though the 

 darkness was certainly very great, they did not escape being 

 observed, and incontinently some of our men leapt into the 

 ditch and killed eighteen who were engaged in this work, 

 and destroyed the gallery. In the morning we took care 

 to make a dike in the same ditch, in which we placed a 

 piece of six pounds to oppose any engine which the enemy 

 might seek to place therein ; and seeing that we had prevented 

 what they had designed, they commenced advancing an 

 approach towards the front of that same ditch, without our 

 being able to hinder their carrying on this work by many 

 and frequent assaults, which we made on them, even setting 

 fire to them ; and in order to prevent our doing this, and 

 to defend those who were at work, they made three f ortlets 

 in that part ; but withal we were in nowise neglectful, and 

 resisted them in every way that was possible to us, ori. 



