[Footnote 944: _Journal du siege_, p. 75. Ch. du Lys, _Traite sommaire tant du nom et des armes que de la naissance et parente de la Pucelle d'Orleans et de ses freres_, Paris, 1628, in 4to, p. 50. Abbe Dubois, _Histoire du siege_, p. 344. P. Mantellier, _Histoire du siege_, p. 86. Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 65, proofs and illustrations, note xv.] On the morning of the 29th the barges, which had been anchored at Checy, crossed the Loire, and those who were with the convoy loaded them with victuals, ammunition, and cattle.[945] The river was high.[946] The barges were able to drift down the navigable channel near the left bank. The birches and osiers of l'Ile-aux-Boeufs hid them from the English in the Saint-Loup bastion. Besides, at that moment, the enemy was occupied elsewhere. The town garrison was skirmishing with them in order to distract their attention. The fighting was somewhat hard. There were slain and wounded; prisoners were taken on both sides; and the English lost a banner.[947] Beneath the deserted[948] watch of Saint-Jean-le-Blanc the barges passed unprotected. Between l'Ile-aux-Boeufs and the Islet of Les Martinets they turned starboard, to go down again, following the right bank, under l'Ile-aux-Toiles, as far as La Tour Neuve, the base of which was washed by the Loire, at the south-eastern corner of the town. Then they took shelter in the moat near the Burgundian Gate.[949] [Footnote 945: _Journal du siege_, pp. 75, 76.] [Footnote 946: Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, p. 68.] [Footnote 947: _Chronique de la Fete_, in _Trial_, vol. v, p. 290.] [Footnote 948: _Journal du siege_, pp. 74, 75. Jean Chartier, _Chronique_, vol. i, p. 69. _Chronique de la Pucelle_, pp. 284, 285.] [Footnote 949: Boucher de Molandon, _Premiere expedition de Jeanne d'Arc_, pp. 51 _et seq._] The whole day the manor of Reuilly was besieged by a procession of citizens, who could not forbear coming at the risk of their lives to see the promised Maid. It was six o'clock in the evening before she left Checy. The captains wanted her to enter the town at nightfall for fear of disorders and lest the crush around her should be too great.[950] Doubtless they passed along the broad valleys leading from Semoy towards the south, on the borders of the parishes of Saint-Marc and Saint-Jean-de-Braye. On the way she said to those who rode with her: "Fear nothing. No harm shall happen to you."[951] And indeed the only danger was for pedestrians. Horsemen ran little risk of being pursued by the English, who were short of horses in their bastions. [Footnote 950: _Journal du siege_, p. 75.] [Footnote 951: _Ibid._, p. 76.]