_ 29 _ these men who died for your service, and to the brothers of Dom Garcya to show them some favour because they are men who deserve it, and moreover they have this plea for better doing so. From Maluqo, I had likewise news through Cristovão de Sa who came from thence and was Captain there, and through a provision which was sent over by Jorge Cabral he delivered up the fortress to Bernadim de Souza who was there; who, after being captain, went with a hundred and eighty Portuguese to besiege the fortress of Gildo and took with him the King of Maluqo with the two thousand native men who aided him very much, and he had it under seige for three months, and he caused much damage and slew a large number though receiving small loss of his own, and he straitened them so, that despite its strength, through want of food it surrendered with all artillery, muskets and arms that were in it, and he destroyed it down to the ground, and all the broken stones cast into the sea by his command. The King of Gildo remained a vassal of the King of Maluqo and that of Sumbaya, he having been formerly the most powerful King that in the land existed, and who much greatly harassed the fortress of Your Highness, thus the land remained quiet and pacified without there being any thing from whence to receive prejudice or damage
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