_ 105 _ we are delivered from all our troubles which awaited us, may with this remembrance of Your Worship. By Ruy Lopes, I wrote to Your Worship how we remained besieged by sea and by land by the Turks who had set six batteries of large artillery basiliscs and a espalhafato and a large cannon, and some smaller pieces on the roof's of the houses of the King; nevertheless during the eleven days in which they attacked the Fortress, they effected small damage on account of its strength, they struck and broke one of our canals of iron, and with one shot from the Fortress we shivered their espalhafato, they killed four Portuguese and wounded ten or twelve; and we learnt after the Turks had left, that they had received greater hurt than we from the well directed shots our gunners had fired on their mantlets. On the last night when they withdrew their artillery and raised the siege, they brought us a Portuguese gunner they had been taken in the fortress of Mascate, who came to speak to the men who were on the wall beseeching that he and the other should be ransomed and until then we never were made aware of this, albeit that many of the renegades use to come stealthily at night to talk with the men at the wall but they never would give a reply to the purpose, and the day they went away there came on to us two Christians, one a Russian by nation, and the other
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