_ 338 _ (which placed themselves between the galleys and the land) which spared no-one's life. Ali Chelebi, who had rounded the promontory with nine galleys, stationed himself out at sea observing the fight with our fleet, and when he saw the galleys captured he set sail in the direction of the other coast, intending to make his way to Cambay, because there was no way he was going to Constantinople, since the Turk was sure to cut off his head. When our caravels saw the galleys leave, they unfurled their sails and pursued them as far as the coast of India. With that victory, Dom Fernando retired Muscat to tend to whatever wounded there were, and for the captains of the caravels to transfer to the foists. He ordered the six galleys to be repaired and re-equipped. He ransomed the galley slaves from the hands of the soldiers and ordered the galleys to be blessed by the priests, giving all of them a name by which they were to be known, and sharing out their captaincies among the noble captains of the foists. He gave the galley "Santa Elena" to Sebastião Macedo: the galley “Santa Lucia" to Manuel de Siqueira; the "Conceição" to Baltasar Monteiros the "Vitoria" to Gomes de Siqueira; the "Santiago" to Jorge Pereira; and the "San
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