ABSTRACT
A nd when the people of the galleys were refreshed, and had identified all the people they held prisoners, and what they had taken, the trumpet sounded and they proceeded to embark. Now it is the truth that, whilst the battle was going on at Rosas, two armed barges went to the fifty galleys to tell them of the event. They overtook the fifty galleys beyond Cape Aiguafreda, in a creek called Tamariu, which is the landing place of Palafrugell, and they told them this news. And the fifty galleys returned towards Rosas, and when they had passed Cape Aiguafreda they saw the galleys at sea, towing the twenty-five galleys, and they con tinued on their own course. And En Ramon Marquet was of the best mariners of the world and foresaw all that came to pass; that the men of Rosas would send barges to warn the fifty galleys to return. Wherefore, at night, he put out to sea with the landbreeze, as far as the breeze carried him, so that, if the fifty galleys came upon him as the wind changed, they would come astern. And so it happened. And when the fifty galleys had sight of them, as I have told you before, they pursued their course rowing, for they were well armed. And En Ramon Marquet and En Berenguer Mallol saw them and thought that, if they towed all the twenty-five galleys, they would not be able to escape. And the breeze veered to out at sea and twenty-two galleys and two lenys set sail and left the others, and held themselves to the wind as well as they could. The fifty galleys who saw this and that the wind had freshened,
CHAPTER CXX X I.
