[1] King Richard then vnderstanding this iniurie to him doone by the Cypriots, & perceiuing they would resist his landing, prepared himselfe and his people to enter vpon them by force. The king of Cypres I|sakius or Cursach (whome Houeden nameth empe|rour of Cypres) had assembled the most part of all the power of men that he might make (though few of them were armed, or had any great skill in feats of warre) and caused them to set boords, logs of wood, benches, formes, and great chests afore them, as a de|fense, and as it were in steed of a wall, that by suc|cour thereof they might the better kéepe off their eni|mie from landing.