_ 113 _ As soon as Peribeque entered this Strait he sent a galliot to Baçorá, it is said, to ask for men, because he had brought few himself, and that he is at present awaiting for their arrival and if they come, to return to attack with them this fortress, a thing I do not think he will do on account of the news he has had by this catur, which Your Worship sent out here which arrived on Saturday the twenty second day of October, for which we also rejoiced greatly, and we all received from Your illustrious Worship very great and signal favour for sending it to us at this occasion, and for the good news Your Worship gave us and the haste you were making to equip the fleet to proceed in search of this one, for which Our Lord will surely grant en entire victory as we desire, and hope in Him. Peribeque departed from this island for Queixome and besieged the whole island, and robbed and captured in it the greater portion of the noble and wealthy people of this city which had collected together when he went from this, according as it is said, he has made a rich prize, may it please our Lord that Your Worship should come to wrench it from his claws, all which we hope for from Your Worship, an account of the conjunction of affairs which it seems God ordains for Your Worship to bring to a conclusion by sea and by land, with the destruction of these enemies, a thing
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