ABSTRACT
A f t e r w a r d s , when the Lord Infante went to Messina, the admiral, by his leave, went to Barbary, to an island called Jerba which belonged to the King of Tunis; and he laid waste the said island and carried off more than ten thousand Saracen captives, male and female, whom he brought to Sicily and sent, some to Mallorca, and some to Catalonia ; and he made so much gain that the expenses of the galleys and the cost of fitting them out were cleared. And afterwards, he made another expe dition and went to Romania, and harried the islands of Mytilene and Lemnos and Thermia and Tinos and Andros and Mykonos, and then he harried the island of Chios, where mastic is made, and he took the city of Monemvasia, and returned to Sicily with so much gain that five such fleets as his might have been paid for out of it. And so also he raided the island of Corfu and burnt and pillaged all the region round the castle. And then he harried all Cefalonia and the Duchy. And all who had come with him became very rich ; so that when they gambled they would admit no man at the table, unless he had gold coins, even if he brought a thousand marks they would not admit him.
