Avontuurlijke reys-togten van Johan Smith, in verscheyde gedeelten des werelds, begonnen in het jaar 1593 ...

1593

...holding the light still on that letter where the sentence or word is finished, and that for so long until those in the city could write it on a paper, and answer by their signal, which is one light. That being done, one began, by showing the light, to count the letters, each time from A to M. By this means the other obtained the answer, through which we understood one another.

Guides scout the Army of the Turks.
Smith puts another military stratagem into action.

While we were putting this into action, the guides scouted the Army of the Turks, and returning to Kisell, he was doubtful because of his power, which consisted of only 10,000 men. But being encouraged by those guides, who said how the Turks were divided into 2 parts by the River, and that they could not easily support one another, I added this as a final touch: that I would attach 2 or 3,000 pieces of slow-match to 100 fathoms of rope in length, which would be provided with gunpowder, all of which would be ignited and hung just before the attack on the plain of Hysnaburg, which would be supported at each end in a guilded manner original: "Gelids-wijse", likely referencing an arrangement like a gate or frame, as if resembling so many ranks of musketeers; which was put into action.

By which the Turks are misled.
Many slain.

The Turks, seeing this, prepared themselves against those false lights as against true enemies, thinking it to be a portion of a field army. Meanwhile, Kisell fell upon the Turks with his 10,000 men, who ran back and forth in astonishment. It did not last long before Ebersbaught, sallying forth, threw them into disarray within their entrenchments. Meanwhile, because of the divided disorder, a third part of the Turks who were besieging the city were completely beaten toward the side of Knousbruck, they all fleeing, and the remainder drowned. The other part of the Turkish army remained in order to withstand the attack of the false lights, so that...