That the largest balls thus discharged, would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once, but batter the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships, with a thousand men in each, to the bottom of the sea, and when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them.
Honela botatako bolarik handienek armada bateko lerrokada osoak suntsi ditzaketela aldi berean, baita harresirik sendoenak eraitsi edo mila gizoneko itsasontziak urperatu eta hondora bidali ere; eta elkarlotuz gero kateaz, mastak eta aparailuak ebaki, ehunka gorputz erdi-erditik moztu eta aurrean aurkitutako guztia deseginda utz lezakeela.