atreviment de venir en mig de tantes naues com en lo port stauen. La nau se acosta e con fon prop delles carregua de tantes veles com podia portar: en aço conegueren los Genouesos, e en lo galip de la nau que no era de les sues, posarense en orde del que pogueren: empero la nau los fon tan prop que neguna nau no pogue alçar vela, e aquesta a veles plenes passa per mig de totes les naus al lur despit.
When Robert, Duke of Catania, besieged the city of
Messina in Sicily, Roger de Flor brought provisions to
the starving soldiers and inhabitants, and the duke was
obliged to raise the siege. Below follows the account of
this event as narrated by Muntaner.
[1] E frare Roger . . . axi hach deu galees, e
carrega les a Xacca de forment, e venchses a
Caragoça, e espera ques metes fortuna de xaloch
o de mig jorn. E com la fortuna fo, que era tant
gran, que tota la mar nanaua en sanch, que nul
hom no so gosara pensar, qui no fos axi bon
mariner, com ell, ana a fer vela de Caragoça,
com hach donada part a la nuyt, e a lalba ell fo
en bocha de Far; e en bocha de Far es la major
marauella del mon, com res hi ha durada, com
- [Footnote: the boldness to come into the midst of so many ships as were
in the port. The vessel approached and when it was very close to them, all the sails that it was able to carry were set. By this and by the lines of the ship the Genoese saw that it was none of theirs and they put themselves in order the best they could: but the vessel was so near them that no ship was able to set a sail, and that one with sails full spread passed through the midst of all the ships in spite of them. Tirant lo Blanch, chap. ciiii, cols. 3 and 4.]*
- ↑ And Brother Roger . . . thus had ten galleys, and he loaded them with grain at Sciacca and came to Syracuse and waited for a strong wind to come up from the southeast or south. And when the wind came it was so strong that the whole sea began to rage, so that no man who was not so good a mariner as he, dared think of setting sail. He set sail from Syracuse when night had come, and at dawn he entered the Strait of Faro; and it is the greatest wonder in the world that anything can survive in the Strait of Faro when
