_ 27 _ For He willed and permitted that I should send Gyll Fernandes to that voyage, with such very different ideas of what should result from it and occur, and being there, I knew by a letter of Dom Pedro of the position he was in, and then made ready with a ship and two foists, and departed the best equipped he could, and he arrived in time, which can well be said according as I have information of those who were there present, that after Our Lord in whose Hands are all things, that of His Mercy He so willed it thus, he was the Salvation of Mallaqa which was besieged with many slain, and without food supplies, or with the necessary things the town taken and a great quantity of goods and many of the people slain, and that belonging to the Christians placed in great want and strait, and well nigh desperate. After his arrival and landing with his men he ran upon the entrenchments which were held by the enemy with such courage, and he chiefly fought in such a manner, that, despite the many wounds received, he gained it with the loss of some of his men, and in this, as well as in all else that he performed in this undertaking, winning as much honour for himself as he could desire in a similar affair, and he rendered such service to Your Highness that he is truly worthy of much honour and favour, so much so, that
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