text:  All the remainder of the island however had now peaceably submitted to the Ottoman rule and had been organized into sandjaks and districts; so that the garrison of Candia were rather the occupants of a solitary post in a hostile country than defenders of the soil against the invasion; and the Turkish commanders ill supplied from Constantinople during the troubled minority of Mohammed with siege equipage and munitions of war contented themselves with blockading the town by the erection of redoubts and guarding the open country with their cavalry