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HISTORY OF ATHENS. 67
"The twenty-third, four more great guns, two of
fifty, and two of twenty, with two mortar-pieces, were
landed and brought to the battery.
" The twenty-sixth, they began to play with their
bombs upon the fortress ; one of which fell among
their ammunition, and fired a great part of it, to the
great terror of the besieged, whose defences began to
fail them, their parapets being ruin'd, and their great
guns dismounted.
" The twenty-seventh, this day the trenches were
opened in order to make the approaches, and to ad-
vance under the walls.
" The twenty-eighth, towards evening, through the
continual playing of our bombs, which fell all into
the small enclosure, there happen'd another great fire,
which encreasing upon the fuel of the houses, and the
continual playing our bombs, endur'd so furious all
that day and the next night, that the enemy, astonish'd
to see their houses and their goods consum'd, and
their families burn'd, resolv'd to hang out a white
flag, and with earnest and loud cries toward the bat-
tery of the super-intendent, Count Felice, begg'd 'em
to fling no more bombs; which the Count under-
standing caus'd all hostility to cease. Whereupon
General Coningsmark gave leave for five hostages to
come forth, who being sent to the Lord Admiral and
Captain General, the following capitulations were
agreed upon ; which being translated into the Turk-
ish idiom, one copy was sign'd by the hostages afore-
mentioned, and the other sent to the fortress for
punctual performance.
" His Excellency was glad of this advantage; for
*ho' the enclosure were but small, yet it would have
cost a great deal of time, and loss of much blood, to
have master'd it, by reason of the strength of the
situation.
"The twenty-third, four more great guns, two of
fifty, and two of twenty, with two mortar-pieces, were
landed and brought to the battery.
" The twenty-sixth, they began to play with their
bombs upon the fortress ; one of which fell among
their ammunition, and fired a great part of it, to the
great terror of the besieged, whose defences began to
fail them, their parapets being ruin'd, and their great
guns dismounted.
" The twenty-seventh, this day the trenches were
opened in order to make the approaches, and to ad-
vance under the walls.
" The twenty-eighth, towards evening, through the
continual playing of our bombs, which fell all into
the small enclosure, there happen'd another great fire,
which encreasing upon the fuel of the houses, and the
continual playing our bombs, endur'd so furious all
that day and the next night, that the enemy, astonish'd
to see their houses and their goods consum'd, and
their families burn'd, resolv'd to hang out a white
flag, and with earnest and loud cries toward the bat-
tery of the super-intendent, Count Felice, begg'd 'em
to fling no more bombs; which the Count under-
standing caus'd all hostility to cease. Whereupon
General Coningsmark gave leave for five hostages to
come forth, who being sent to the Lord Admiral and
Captain General, the following capitulations were
agreed upon ; which being translated into the Turk-
ish idiom, one copy was sign'd by the hostages afore-
mentioned, and the other sent to the fortress for
punctual performance.
" His Excellency was glad of this advantage; for
*ho' the enclosure were but small, yet it would have
cost a great deal of time, and loss of much blood, to
have master'd it, by reason of the strength of the
situation.