ABSTRACT
A nd when the admiral had won the battle, and the feast in Messina was over, as you have heard already, he prepared to fit out thirty galleys, for he had news that, at Naples, all the galleys that were there were being equipped, and so he wished to be prepared and he fitted out the thirty galleys. And when they were fitted out, he had news from Naples that those galleys would not sally out yet for a whole month ; that there would go, on board of them, of counts and other banner lords, more than fourteen, with chivalry who would bring their horses in cross-rigged barges and in the galleys. And so he judged rightly that it was not necessary that that month should be wasted. And he called his brother-inlaw, En Manfredo Lansa, and told him to go on board the galleys, and a hundred knights with him and a thousand almugavars and a hundred seamen ; and that all should join him with their tents and bring four catapults, and that they should go to the castle of Malta and hold it besieged until they took it.
