The twenty janissaries, who were left to defend it, had bound themselves by an oath never to surrender the place. Being reduced to the extremity of famine, they found themselves obliged to kill our two eunuchs, and eat them rather than violate their oath. But this horrible repast soon failing them, they next determined to devour the women.
Los veinte genízaros juráron no rendirse; los apuros del hambre á que se viéron reducidos, los forzáron á comerse á los dos eunucos, por no faltar al juramento; y al cabo de pocos dias se resolviéron á comerse las mugeres.