_ 220 _ and invaded by the Portuguese crews. Soon the deaths of Maimane and his two sons put their troops to flight. The ships, run down and set on fire, were abandoned by their defenders(A). Access to the shore being clear, Lopo Soares gave the order to disembark to the sound of trumpets and kettledrums(B). But when they were one lance-throw from the shore, the assailants were caught in a cloud of arrows shot from all sides by the enemy archers concealed in the surrounding areas. They had to open a way to the first houses of Cranganor(C) using crossbows and arqubuses. The forces of Nambiadari posted in this quarter took flight at the sight of the Portuguese advance-guard, escaping just in time from Duarte Pacheco and Diogo Fernandes Correia who entered the city by another gate and began to set fire to the straw huts(D). The enemy had abandoned three large new vessels in the roads which were burned and thirty-five paraos and sambucos which came straight away to strengthen the fleet(E). (A) BM Anonymous, p. 123, Castanheda, I/94, p. 197; Barros, I/7-10, p. 293; Góis, I/97, p. 234. (B) BM Anonymous, p. 123. (C) Barros, I/7-10, 293. (D) Castanheda, I/94, p. 197-198, Góis, 1/97, p. 235. (E) BM Anonymous, p. 123; Barros, I/7-10, p. 293.
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