_ 118 _ who were behind it, and they were walking along the shore with shields, assegais, Moorish poignards and bows and slings with which they hurled stones at us. But we with the bombards kept them such good company that they were compelled to leave the shore and to withdraw inside the palisades they had built and which hindered rather than aided them, and we were at this same three hours. And there we saw two men killed, one on the shore and the other within the stockade. After we were weary of them, we returned to the ships, and they fled forthwith, carrying their chattels in the almadias to a village on the other bank. And after we had dined, we set out in the long-boats to capture some of them to exchange for the two Christian Indians they held captive and for the Negro who had run away, and so we made after an almadia of the sharif loaded with chattels, and another carrying four Negroes, which was taken by Paullo da Gama, and the one loaded with chattels made for the shore whence they all fled leaving the almadia alongside with others we found by the shore, and the Negroes we had taken we brought to the ships. In the almadias we found a quantity of fine cotton cloth, baskets of palm and a glazed jar with butter and glass phials with waters, and the books of their laws, and a coffer
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