_ 339 _ Miguel" to Gonçalo Guedes. In these galleys they took forty-seven pieces of artillery made of bronze, amongst which there were basilisks, spheres, and captured cannons with up to forty arretels of shot, plus some camels and eagles. While Dom Fernando de Meneses was equipping the fleet, he sent a light ship with the news of the victory to his father, and he continued rebuilding the fleet. Our caravels which were sailing behind the galleys, chased then as far as the coast of India. The seven took shelter in Surat, where the caravels of Dom Jeronimo de Castelo Branco, Nuno de Castro and Dom Manuel Mascarenhas cornered them and then decided to remain at the bar. Dom Fernando de Monroi and Antonio de Valardes went after the other two galleys and harassed them in such a way that they forced them to beach, one in Daman and the other in Danu, where they were smashed to pieces then they passed on to Bassein. When Francisco de Sá de Meneses the Captain of that fortress found out what was happening, and how the other galleys were sheltering in Surat, he organised ten or twelve ships in which he embarked, and he went to station himself at the bar with the caravels.
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