The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . ved the town lightsworking to and fro in answer, which he read off easily,to the effect that Ebersbacht would make the sortierequired. i6ui.] CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH 59 They stayed on the hill till daybreak, and thenreturned to headquarters, having observed that theTurkish camp was divided into two parts which layon each side the river, and could thus be cut off fromone another. On hearing this report, and now assured of beingseconded by Ebersbacht, Kisell resolved to make theattack. Y
The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . ved the town lightsworking to and fro in answer, which he read off easily,to the effect that Ebersbacht would make the sortierequired. i6ui.] CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH 59 They stayed on the hill till daybreak, and thenreturned to headquarters, having observed that theTurkish camp was divided into two parts which layon each side the river, and could thus be cut off fromone another. On hearing this report, and now assured of beingseconded by Ebersbacht, Kisell resolved to make theattack. Yet even with the garrison the Christianswould be inferior in numbers to the enemy, so Smithdevised a plan for remedying this deficiency. Hespent all that day and the next in preparing what hecalled his stratagem. He procured thirty lines of cord,each two hundred yards in length, and along these, atregular intervals, he tied three thousand packets ofgunpowder, every one furnished with a piece of tow ormatch, by which to set it alight. The end of eachline was fastened to a pole about the height of aman. Thus—. ,- *..-,.... ».,4.,„. m .aWtawm,. «rtcoilll{(ri .*!«*..,, ...WW £J3 When Thursday night came and darkness fell,these poles were set up on the plain of Hysnaburg, 60 THE ADVENTURES OF fi6oi. and the Hues stretched between them in orderly man stood ready at each end with a hidden torchin his hand. In the mean time, Kisell and his ten thousand menhad taken up their position on the east, in an oppositedirection, but on the same side of the river. The alarm was given. In an instant Smith andhis men flew down the lines, setting light to thepackets of gunpowder. They went off with a blazeand a report, like so many musket-shots. In fact,in the dark, they had the effect of a detachment ofmusketeers. The unsuspecting Turks started up atthe sound of these false fires, and rushed towardsthem, thinking they were being attacked in thatdirection. Then Kisell came r
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