Capitolo 91
neighborhood that refuge would be allowed to an enemy was demolished
and the materials used in to build wherever walls of them were had need,
or in to strengthen the barricades. Military and prodigious motors, done to
you throw heavy stones and wood rays and the other ponderous missiles,
has put above inside his/her lines, and openings were made in the walls and
other defenses of the citadel, wherever necessary, to facilitate the
action of these cars.
There was a situated strong fortitude to the head of the bench or mole
conducting to the island of Pharos that was without the lines of Caesar and
still in the hands of the Egyptian authorities. The Egyptians this way
commanded the entry to the mole. The same island, also with the
fortitude to the other goal of the bench, was still in the possession of
the Egyptian authorities that seemed prepared for holding him/it for Achillas.
The mole was very long, as the island was almost a mile from the beach.
There was a true small city on the same island, besides the
fortitude or castle built to defend there the place. The garrison of this
castle was strong, and the inhabitants of the city, constituted also a
rather formidable population, as they consisted of fishermen sailors,,
destroyers and desperate so other characters, as you usually congregate
on such stain. Cleopatra and Caesar, from the windows of their building
inside the city, it reputed out this island with the light and tall house,
rising in the center of it and the castle to his/her base, and on the long one
and narrow isthmus that connects him/it with the earth principal, and concluded that
it was a lot of main point that they should find possession of the place,
commanding, as it did, the entry to the I bring.
In the I bring that it was on the southern side of the mole and,
accordingly, on the opposite side to that from which it was Achillas
advancing toward the city, there a big number of Egyptian was lying
vases, some dismantled, and others equipped and they armed more or less
effectively. These vases had not entered the hands of Achillas yet, but