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King Richard at once ordered the anchors to be raised, and all to follow the royal ship. The fleet entered the harbor of Famagosta; the English archers began the fight by sending a flight of arrows into the town. This was answered from the walls by a shower of stones and darts from the machines. There was no time wasted.
"It would be well that Her Majesty came hither to dwell," said one of the burghers eagerly; "and the Prince because of the noisome air and water of Famagosta." "Aye; and because of other things," interposed a stalwart man who had just issued from the palace of the Vice-Roy and joined the waiting throng.
When the news of Gian Girolamo's death arrived in Venice, there was not one of the Senate who did not feel indescribable sorrow at the loss of such a man, who had been so devoted to that Republic. Gian Girolamo died at the age of forty-five, and received honourable burial from his above-named kinsman in S. Niccolò at Famagosta.
His malignant eyes rested fondly on this order for the surrender of the famous stronghold of Cerines to a nephew of General Saplana, the treacherous Commander of Famagosta; with two such fortresses they should command the coast, and their empire in Cyprus was assured.
The Commander of Famagosta hath men and arms behind those impregnable walls, and all the wicked strength of his cunning Council to direct them, Rizzo and Fabrici masters in intrigue and the men of the galleys of Naples at the tower in the port, commanding land and sea. Without more force it is impossible!" "Dear Lady, the Bernardini lacketh no courage, and he commandeth.
Have I not said that Cyprus hath need of a man to rule? Who led the people to storm the Fortress of Famagosta? Who ruled the city in quiet through those days of stress? Thou art the man! Through me, who hold the key, thou shalt rule them well." "I am a Venetian," he answered coldly; and no longer hesitating to use the needful force to unclasp the clinging, importunate hands.
He despatched several ships with this object in view; they landed at Limasol, and, having burnt the ships in the harbour and plundered the town, they returned home. The favourable result of this expedition much encouraged the sultan, and in the following year he sent out a large fleet from Alexandria which landed in Famagosta.
At once the signal was hoisted for all the vessels in a condition to sail to take on board water and provisions, and to prepare to sail for Cyprus; and the next morning at daybreak the fleet sailed out, and made their way toward that island, casting anchor off the harbor of Famagosta.
For this buried city on the coast was the ancient city of Salamis, and famed for her magnificence the Famagosta Vecchia which had furnished many a stately column and intricately wrought carving to enrich the modern city to which Janus had transferred the capital of his kingdom.
But the situation was not rendered less galling by the reflection that the port of Famagosta the sole harbor of importance in the island was covered by the citadel commanded by a traitor; that just within the port a galley flaunting the colors of Naples, rode complacently; and that there were no longer any Cyprian ships-of-war ready for attack.
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