ABSTRACT
A n d when it was passed midnight, with the land breeze which had sprung up in the bay, they set sail and they were so many that they hid the sea from sight; for, do not think that there were only the forty-five galleys and the lenys and the barges which came with them, but they found also at Nicotera, what with trading vessels and terides and barges laden with victuals for King Charles’s host, over a hundred and thirty sail ; and they brought them all to Messina and had all the goods and arms of Nicotera put on board. So they went so fast with the land breeze that night that, at dawn, they were at Boca del Faro, in front of the small tower of the lighthouse of Messina. And when it was daylight and they had passed the small tower, the people of Messina looked, and seeing so many sails they all cried: “ Ah God, Our Father and Lord, what is this ? Look, the fleet of King Charles has taken the galleys of the Lord King of Aragon and is coming back upon us.”
