Do not teach, and you alone will be excellent. Take a simple servant and have the garment sewn at home. Stop the masters' galleys, then drown the rest, and set fire to the bastion of the bombard.

When the watch has been set, place a little boat - a small one - beneath the stern, and set them all afire at one stroke.

For fastening a galley to the bottom m, on the side opposite the anchor. A kind of belly-armour (panziera) shaped to form a hood. A jerkin and hose, and a little bladder for urinating, a garment of belly-armour, and the wineskin that holds the breath, with half-hoops of iron to keep it away from the chest. If you have a whole bag fitted with a ball-valve, when you deflate it you will go to the bottom, pulled down by the bags of sand; when you inflate it you will rise again, above the water. A mask with bulging eyes of glass; but let the weight be of such a kind that you can lift it by your swimming. Carry a knife that cuts well, so that a net may not catch you. Carry with you two or three little bags, deflated and to be inflated like balls, for your needs. Take constables as you see fit, and secretly, with many bonds, set them on the shore. But first make a pact by legal instrument, that half the ransom be yours, free and without any exception; and let the deposit of the prisoners be kept near Maneto; and let payment - that is, of the said ransom - be made into Maneto's hand. Carry a horn to give a signal of the deed, whether it has succeeded or not. One should bring one of the 3 iron screws from the works of Santa Liberata. Mould it in plaster and cast it in wax.

female (nut).

Everything under water, that is, the whole locking mechanism.

Here stands the man.

Jerkin - hose.

A flat platform (deck).

kept separate from the suit, should it be necessary to break it.

little sacks of sand.

Cork that stays between the two waters (midway in the water). Carry 40 braccia of rope attached to the sack of sand.