_ 235 _ dangerous places, though there was no spot that was not dangerous and where he did not appear and he shared in everyone's hardships and injuries, because he also received three very serious wounds in his body. When Dom Diogo de Noronha witnessed this bravery and realised that he could not go to the aid of his galleon, he fretted and fumed like a demented man, reproaching S. Lourenço because he had failed to give him a wind to go and help it, calling him a callow youth who was depriving him of his honour". In his rage, he gave orders to equip all the sloops of the galleons and provide them with towlines, to see if anything could be done, but all was in vain, and he sent all the oared vessels to go and help the galleon. Their captains made strenuous efforts, some of them going very close to the galleys, but these encircled the galleon and it was impossible to approach it. Nothing more remained for Gonçalo Pereira to do, and as he saw with his own eyes that everything was proceeding well, he performed the duties of a brave and sensible captain. The boatswain and the pilot, who toiled like elephants on that day paying no heed to the dangers, were killed by musket shots, because cannon balls, gunfire and clouds of arrows, which covered all our men with feathers,
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