ABSTRACT

W h e n that fleet had departed from Pisa and came to the mouth of the Busnavre, the Genoese lost a galley which ran ashore, of which galley about eighty men escaped alive. And the Judge of Arborea who knew this sent a company to where the galley was stranded and they took all the eighty men and sent them, with a rope round their necks, to the admiral at Bonaire who, at once, had strong fetters made for them and had them set to work at the wall and ditch of Bonaire. And so likewise, at that time, a Genoese galley of Savona, which came from Flanders, was driven by a storm to the island of San Pietro and broke up and about a hundred and fifty men escaped. And the admiral heard this at Bonaire and sent to the island and took all the hundred and fifty men, and did with them what* he had done with the others. What shall I tell you ? On Christmas day of

1325 the year 1325 the twenty-two Genoese galleys and the twenty-five Pisan and six, between armed lenys and ferty boats arrived before Cagliari. The other shipping they had left at Bonifacio and they had come separately, for they expected to enter the palisade of Cagliari and to be able to put in the victuals they were bringing.