ABSTRACT

W h en the Lord King of Aragon had received the news which the Lord Infante sent him of the battle he had won, he had, at once, tw enty light galleys built at Barcelona and at Valencia And, incontinent, he started the twenty galleys and had an enlisting table put up at Barcelona for eight galleys, and for two at Tarragona, and at Tortosa for two more, and at Valencia for eight, which eight galleys of Valencia the honourable En Jaime Escriva and I, Ramon Muntaner, were commissioned to equip. And so it was effected ; within eight days the said eight galleys of Valencia were equipped and went to Barcelona. And whilst they were going to Barcelona all the others got ready, and it was ordained by the Lord King that the commander of them should be the honourable En Pedro de Belloch, an accomplished and expert knight who lives at Valles. And the said twenty galleys departed from Barcelona and in a few days came to Cagliari. And when the Lord Infante saw them he had great joy and pleasure in them ; and they of Cagliari held themselves for lost, for they saw well that, thenceforth, they could have no hope of help, neither from Pisan nor Genoese galleys, for these tw enty galleys would cut them off from all the world. And, meanwhile, the messenger from Pisa had come, and arranged with micer Barnabo Doria who had made himself spokesman for the peace between the Commune of Pisa and the Lord Infante En Alfonso.