ABSTRACT
The Captain-Major applied himself most assiduously to the work of fortifying the moat, which formed the chief strength of the fort, because the Persians are very expert miners and engineers, in which qualities they surpass any other nation; 2 they were likewise continually adding to the great strength with which they had come against the fort, as we were informed by our spies, in confirmation of what their spy (who had been captured with the fruit as related above) had told us.
