ABSTRACT
A n d when they had departed no one knew why they went, except the Lord King and En Ramon Marquet and En Berenguer Mallol and the chancellor and the clerk who wrote the letters. And En Ramon Marquet and En Berenguer Mallol embarked in the eleven galleys and two lenys which were left. And you may believe that never were eleven galleys better manned by so many good seamen without knights, for there were none, nor sons of knights. And they took leave of the Lord King, who made the sign of the Cross over them and blessed
them and commended them to God’s keeping. And they embarked and rowed out to sea, appearing to steer for Sicily. And when they had embarked and were out at sea in such manner that none could see them from Catalonia, and the breeze had become a fine west wind, they hoisted their sails and took their course for Cape Creus. What shall I tell you ? In the course of that day and night and the following day they were in the waters of Cape Creus, about twenty-five miles at sea, off the Cape. And when the sun had set, they sailed nearer the land and shaped their course for Cadaques ; the breeze outside was south-east, so that at the hour of the bona paraula they were at two small islands near Cadaques.1
