Every boat is, garnished with the most dainty captains and soldiers, so that if the enemy should attempt to assail us now, they would come back with broken heads." Yet in the midst of his apparent triumph he had, at times, almost despair in his heart.

He felt really at the last gasp.

His troops had dwindled to the mere shadow of an army, and they were forced to live almost upon air.
The cavalry had nearly vanished.

The garrisons in the different cities were starving.

The burghers had no food for the soldiers nor for themselves.