ABSTRACT
W h e n En Berenguer de Vilaragut had parted from the admiral he steered for Cape Colonne. And at dawn of day he went to Cotrone, where he found three ships and many terides of King Charles loaded with victuals, which he was sending to the chivalry he imagined was in Sicily. And at once he surrounded them and took them all and manned them, and sent them to Sicily, to Messina. And then he shaped his course for Taranto and there also he found much shipping which he took and sent to Messina. And then he set his course for Cape Leuca and took Galli poli and sacked it, and in every place he had news of the galleys which may have been already at Brindisi full eight days, for they had tarried nowhere. And therefore he went harrying the coast, so as not to have come in vain. And therefore he entered each of those places, thinking to find them. And then, from Gallipoli, he went to Otranto, which is a good and rich city ; and in the harbour of Otranto he also found much shipping, which he took and sent to Messina. And then he went to the port of Brindisi and entered it as far as the chain, for he could not enter further. And he sent to say to the commander of the galleys that, if he wished to issue forth to give him battle, he would wait for him three days. And so he did, for he awaited him three days within the harbour, but no one wished to issue forth. And when he saw that the commander did not wish to give him battle, he departed one night from Brindisi, and went to raid Vilanova and then Apulia, and then the whole borough of Monopoli. And when he was sacking all this he took much shipping everywhere, which he sent
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