ABSTRACT
B u t the Grand Duke was greatly displeased at having to abandon, at that time, the Kingdom of Anatolia which he had conquered completely and delivered out of its troubles and out of the hands of the Turks. And after he had received the message and the pressing entreaties of the Emperor, he assembled a council and told all the Company the message he had received, and that he begged them to advise him as to what he should do. And
504 CHAPTER CCIX. finally, they gave him the advice that, by all means, he should go and succour the Emperor in his need and then, in the spring, they would return to Anatolia. And this the Grand Duke held to be good advice and acknow ledged that the Company had advised him well. And, at once, they prepared to get ready and fitted out the galleys and put into them all they had taken. And the host took the road by the coast, so that the galleys were daily near the host and the Grand Duke left a good garrison in every place, although a small garrison would have sufficed, for they had swept away the Turks in such wise that hardly one dared show himself in all the king dom, so that this kingdom was completely restored.
