_ 337 _ caravel between two of theirs he fired so many shots into one of them that he set it ablaze and moving forward he rammed the other. Dom Jeronimo came alongside one of the galleys with which he engaged, and he boarded it with fifteen or twenty soldiers putting all the Turks to death by the sword. The other caravels arrived and each grappled with its own galley, while Antonio de Valardes and Fernando de Monroi set a course for the galleys and readily dashed among them. They fought a fierce battle with sword and shield against the Turks, finally killing large numbers of them. The rest threw themselves into the sea. After boarding one of the galleys with which Dom Jeronimo was engaged, Dom Manuel Mascarenhas struck another with his prow, which also surrendered. After Dom Jeronimo de Castelo Branco had captured his two galleys, he had a rope thrown into the sea and by tugging on it he freed himself from the sandbank and took the galleys with him. Then, he announced publicly that Dom Manuel Mascarenhas had captured one of them and destroyed it, which Dom Manuel denied. When the six galleys had surrendered, the people on them who jumped into the sea, were all killed by our foists
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