_ 28 _ with his and that of his men, and with that which was had from Malaqua. The Malays were ousted out and the Jaos, and the city was cleared out, and the siege was put an end to at the fortress and saved it from being taken, but it remained such a wreck and in such a bad state, and so many merchants dead and others in captivity, and so many goods stolen, that it will take a long time to reform it, and much justice done in order to be able to repopulate it, and I hope in Our Lord that as soon as I arrive to Goa to make a fleet, and send it to succour, and provide what is necessary so as to render it secure and free from the dread that despite India should be in such great need. There will be no lack of money for such a necessary work. The number of dead during this siege of Malaqua were a hundred and twenty Portuguese of which they slew some eighty, among these being Dom Garcia de Meneses, son of the Craveiro who was going to Maluqo, and happened to be there going out with some men to take a small portion of artillery with which the enemies were firing the fortress, and with him eighteen men of whom one was Pero Vaz Guedes, another Antonio Ferreira and Antonio de Lugo and Gaspar de Paiva and others: I would kiss the hands of Your Highness to bear in mind
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