_ 127 _ meaning in this way to burn our men without having to expose themselves to our riflemen. They resorted to this trick because they had no other firing devices; however, this was what saved our men, because when the Arabs set fire to the straw there was so much smoke that, neither side could see the other. When our men saw how Our Lord was helping them, they retreated very quickly; they carried those who were badly wounded on their backs or else dragged them away, and in this way they escaped. It seems that it was Our Lord who caused the Arabs to try and burn our men in this way, for if they had not none of them would have been left alive. Chapter: 107 Our state of great disorder made it impossible to capture this city, which was also a punishment for our sins. Following our retreat the Arabs were so overjoyed that they all gathered immediately before the walls and the opening; they attacked furiously, so that stones, arrows and darts rained on our men. The Arabs had seen that our men could not easily fight back for the reasons I've given, and they had approached the walls without fear Garcia de Sousa asked the governor (who could see very well that he was in great trouble) what he should do; as he was a valiant knight he didn't want to
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