ABSTRACT
A n d when he was thus established he, one day, took about a hundred and fifty horse and about three hundred foot and made a raid as far as the city of Constantinople. And as he was returning from it, with a crowd of people and cattle he was bringing with him, the Emperor had sent full eight hundred horse and full a thousand foot to a pass by which he had to come. And En Ferran Ximeno, seeing them, preached to his followers and admonished them to do well ; and, all together, they attacked. What shall I tell you ? Between killed and prisoners they had over six hundred horse and over two thousand foot. And it was a very fine and gallant feat. And so he and his company gained so much in this raid that, with this gain, they went to besiege a castle which is at the entrance of Boca Daner and is called Maditos. And know that that siege was made with no more than eighty horse and two hundred afoot, and within were over seven hundred Greek men of arms. And, indeed the rich hom was more truly besieged than those within. All the bread they eat I sent them in barges from Gallipoli, and there are twenty-four miles from Gallipoli there ; and so I had to send all the refreshment. And so he kept up the siege full eight months and shot day and night with catapults. And I had sent him ten rope ladders with grappling irons ; and m any times in the
night they tried to scale the walls, but it could not be done.
