_ 245 _ come and help him. However, although their captains put a great deal of effort into this, they were unable to reach him, some of them went very close to the galleys, because they were all in a circle surrounding them. The afflicted galleon was in this difficult situation until the hour of vespers, when a fresh breeze began to blow, at which the other galleons began to reach it. As soon as he saw that the breeze was strengthening and that his galleys were badly damaged, Barbarossa abandoned the galleon and setting sail towards the coast on the Persian side, he resumed his homeward journey to Basra, followed in the rear by the carrack that formerly belonged to João Nunes Homem, which Piri Reis had captured in Ormuz. The Turks were taking it laden with artillery, munitions and provisions to supply their fleet. When Dom Diogo reached Gonçalo Pereira’s galleon, he went to him in his sloop. He found him waiting for him on board, accompanied by all his soldiers stained in their own blood and covered in powder and sweat. Many of them still had feathered arrows in some parts of their bodies. When Dom Diogo was on deck, Gonçalo Pereira approached to embrace him, “Go and stand over there. I do not wish to embrace you because, even though you have done a great deal, very little is due to you on that account, since
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