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following Monday, when we put in at Rhodes. Rhodes was anciently a
very large city, not unlike Rome; though its extent can scarcely be
estimated, there are so many ruins of houses and portions of fallen towers
still standing, and such wonderful remains of walls and buildings of
admirable workmanship. There are also a few monasteries still remaining
out of so many ancient edifices, for the most part deserted, though
formerly inhabited by such numerous societies of monks. The site of so
great a city, though by time laid waste, proves the former existence of a
large population; but very few inhabitants were found there now who
could sell us food. But as the king was indisposed, we tarried there a few
days, during which he waited the arrival of the ships that had wandered
out of their course and lost us, and the galleys which followed him. He
made inquiries also about that cruel tyrant, emperor of Cyprus, who was
wont to detain the pilgrims who put in at his port.
Chapter XXVIII. Ñ Of the departure of King Richard from Rhodes, through the
gulf, and of the arrival of the queen at Cyprus.
Having spent ten days at Rhodes, which is a very fertile and
productive island, they went on board, and set out on their voyage on the
1st of May. They were borne on their course into that most dangerous
place, called the Gulf of Satalia. There is a mighty strife of currents formed
by the junction of four seas, struggled violently together, each dashing
against and resisting the other. We were on the point of entering it, when
lo! as if apprehensive of our safety, a contrary current carried us back to the
place from whence we had started. But in a short time, the wind, which in
those parts is constantly shifting, drove us from behind back again into the
gulf, with the more danger from its increased violence. Fearing the effects
of its fury, we did all we could to guard against the dangers of the place,
and pass over the waves that boiled and foamed around. The royal ship
was always in advance, and when the king lifted his eyes, he saw beneath a
calm sky, a very large ship of the sort called a buss (buza ) bearing down,
which was returning from Jerusalem. The king, therefore, speedily sent
men to inquire for intelligence concerning the siege of Acre, from those

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who were in the ship; who replied that the king of France had already
arrived at Acre in safety, and was diligently employed in making
machines, until the arrival of the king of England. The king of France had
put into the port of Acre on the Saturday of Easter week, and was applying
all his energies to the taking of the city. He had therefore caused petrari¾
to be erected, and placed near the tower Maledictum, as well as other
machines for throwing down the walls, for the king of France lay on the
side near to that tower. By means of filling up and treading in the trenches,
and bringing machines and petrari¾ for casting stones, the wall was in part
broken down; but not long afterwards, the machines were attacked and
burnt to ashes by the exertions of the Turks. When King Richard heard all
these things from the aforesaid sailors, the buss passed on its way, and he
made all his arrangements in high spirits; and as the wind was not fair, he
beat about, and toiled much to master its uncertainty; but the fleet, from
the adverse gales, and the rising and falling of the waves, was forced back,
and driven into the open sea. However, the buss from Lyons, in which the
queens were, first put into the port of the city of Limozin, in the island of
Cyprus; though they did not come to the land, but dropped their anchors
at some distance out at sea.
Chapter XXIX. Ñ Of the many misfortunes which befel the Holy Land, especially