We Drove The Enemy Before Us From Several Of
Their Bridges And Barricades; But After Fighting The Whole Day, We Were
Obliged To Retreat To Our Quarters At Night, Almost All Of Us Wounded By
The Incessant Showers Of Stones And Arrows Of The Enemy.
We were
continually assailed on the causeway, by fresh troops of warriors,
carrying different banners or devices; and our
Brigantines were
excessively annoyed from the terraces of the houses which stood in the
water; and as we could not leave a party to keep possession of what we had
acquired during the day, the enemy repossessed themselves of the bridges
at night, and repaired and strengthened their parapets and other defences.
In some places they deepened the water, digging pits in the shallow places,
and placing the canoes in ambush, which they secured against the approach
of our brigantines by means of pallisades under water. Every day we were
employed in the same manner, driving the enemy before us, and every night
we returned to our quarters to bind up our wounds. The cavalry were of no
service, on account of the barricades defended by long lances; and the
soldiers even did not choose to risk their horses, as their price at this
time was from eight hundred to a thousand crowns. One Juan, a soldier from
Catalonia, used to heal our wounds by charms and prayers, which by the
mercy of God recovered us very fast; and this being observed by our allies,
all their wounded men applied to Juan, who had more business on his hands
than he was able for.
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