_ 283 _ [Mirabarus] the chief magistrate of the kingdom, with their families. The rest of the soldiers for whom there was no room in the strongpoints, remained outside with a few guards. The captain ordered these to provide help wherever it was needed. Piri Reis slept ashore that night. The following day he gave orders to disembark the artillery with which he had decided to bombard the fortress, and he marched to within sight of the fortress and pitched camp on the site of the old custom house. He promptly began to fortify it with stone and earth and a lot of wood that he found in the city. The next day he arranged his bastions and trenches in the following pattern: at the corner of the old custom house he placed three heavy artillery pieces, firing cast-iron balls weighing forty arretels. From this position ran a strong stockade crossing the courtyard of the fortress, and they built another bastion in front of the captain’s houses, where they put another five heavy cannon, some firing iron balls others stone ones. From here the stockade ran to the front of the fortress where, because of the bombardment, they built a strongpoint and from there the stockade ran right to the sea with three more bastions, each with five heavy pieces. Thus the
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