_ 88 _ page of the bedchamber of Your Highness and Scrivener of the Custom House, and with the wounded steed. He and the rest withdrew to the fortress: then the Turks came on to the city with which they entered into without meeting any resistance, and proceeded on to the fortress where even then they slew a man with a musket shot. On the third day they landed their artillery, forming six earthworks upon which to place their pieces one on the beach to command the bulwark of Santo André, another towards the doors of the Custom House, a third directed towards the parade where the duellings were of the Captain, and two others on the market place and the last hidden away in the midst of a group of houses wherein the King was to live. All there they furnished with basiliscs and cannons and a Salvagem (a large cannon) besides many other smaller pieces which they discharged from the flat roofs of the houses, and these houses Your Highness should command to be demolished from the Mosque and the Silk Bazaar to the fortress from sea to sea, because from these houses they can work great damage to the fortress, and from the fortress none to those outside it. They attacked the fortress eleven days without effecting much havoc, owing to this fortress in the land
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