_ 89 _ side being very strong; during these days there came at night some galleys to fire on the fortress but at such a distance that little damage was done, they only killed from land four men and wounded ten or twelve men, and broke an iron Camel of ours by a single shot from theirs, and from the fortress they were able to crack their espathafito and discharged three good shots on their mantlets which must have wrought great damage to them. From the state of their trenches, and, from what was gathered from what some of the men stated who were in the city and had remained there, we may have killed from thirty to forty men: at the end of the eleven days they gathered together all their artillery, and on the sixteenth day from their arrival here. They went to the island of Queixome where all the people were, or rather the greater part of this city with all the goods and money that there was in it, and none having fled out of the net, they took everything for in truth it may be said that it was one of the greatest prizes that could be captured in the world: thus, Pirebeque took a fortress with sixty Portuguese men with very good artillery, and came on to assault this one in which we are, which is one of the fortresses I mean, the strongholds of the world, and he entered and sacked this city.
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