16/37 There were in all eighty-seven wagons loaded with wine, corn, flour, and provisions for the use of the army. A few casks of wine were broached. The peasants then buried their own dead--who were very few in number, so securely had they been sheltered in their hiding places--and then the force broke up, each party marching with its proportion of wagons back to its village. My village is six miles away, and I will do my best to make you comfortable. Hitherto you have seen me only as a man of war. |