_ 85 _ his galley without any further company, but during the same day there arrived twelve other galleys, making in all nineteen, and then the Pirebeque for so he is called. The Captain in Chief of the fleet which is the one that took Adem from the Arabians when Dom Paio was there, ordered a piece of artillery to be set on a serra in a spot which overlooked the whole fortress, and then gave it a terrible assault, and the next day a similar one, but these attacks were however not so severe as to cause a notable weakness of such diservice to Your Highness as they subsequently did before despairing for on the third day they surrendered without there being among them more than two deaths, and a few wounded, and under condition of being allowed freely to come to this fortress. But they are such people that subsequently they wished to pay them off for the evil they had brought, for they brought them in the galleys on the boakas covered with scourges and loaded with irons, all which was certainly a judgement of God, because in that place there were many things done to His diservice, both homicides and outrages they used with the natives, as well as many other evils, and the wrath of God was so dilated that the married men who were in the fortress.
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