_ 332 _ caravels ahead, because they were lighter ships, to attack them. This they did and a fierce artillery exchange broke out between them. As soon as Ali Chelebi saw our fleet, he set full sail and made for the shore, while firing his artillery. Dom Antão de Noronha, who was sailing in his galleon, transferred to a galliot with a lot of nobles and soldiers and went to order the captain major to attack Ali Chelebi, because the viceroy had written to him to do so, and that his son should do nothing without him. At that time, the wind was freshening, and the galleys were approaching the shore. The galleon of Gomes da Silva was very close to their cannonades and as Dom Antão knew that the galleon was short of men, because in the hurry most of them had remained in Ormuz, he was afraid some disaster would befall it because it was at some distance from the fleet, so he asked the nobles who were sailing with him if they would like to go aboard the galleon, which was needed in His Majesty's service. He took to the oars and reached it, risking being attacked by the galleys, and after offloading thirty-odd men onto it, he returned to the captain major's galleon and boarded it. Meanwhile, the galleys moved closer to the shore and withdrew to the Lima inlet where the galleons could not enter.
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