_ 237 _ Pereira waited for him aboard with all his soldiers bathed in their own blood and covered all over with gunpowder, sweat and feathers from the many arrows. When Dom Diogo de Noronha had climbed on deck and Gonçalo Pereira Marramque went towards him to embrace him, he said to him: "Move aside, Sir, because I do not wish to embrace you; You are owed nothing, because what you did, your blood and honour obliged you to do, and you assumed these obligations in your mother's womb but these soldiers, yes" and he embraced all of them in turn, covering himself with their blood and sweat, and he addressed many words of praise to all of them. The most important men who were there with Gonçalo Pereira Marramaque were: Dom Afonso Henriques, Luis Freire de Andrade, the former captain of Chaul who experienced the famous siege that the [Zamaluco] imposed on the fortress in 1571, his uncle Jorge de Sousa, Andre Pereira de Berredo, Dom Leonis Pereira the son of the Count of Feira, Dom Luis Pereira, Manuel Furtado Machado, Sebastião Machado, Diogo Nunes Pedroso, Vasco de Reboredo, Leonel Pereira, Francisco da Cunha, Cristovão de Araujo Evangelho, and many other noblemen and knights. Dom Diogo de Noronha allowed some foists to escort Gonçalo Pereira to Ormuz while, with the rest of the fleet,
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