_ 79 _ killed, with him first and those of us who were already in their power. The whole of that day we were filled with anguish, as you have seen. And when night came there were even more people with us, who would not allow us to walk about the compound where we were, and put us in a small tiled patio and surrounded us with infidels. The following day, while in their midst, we expected to be separated from each other or that they would do something else to us, judging by the fact that they were furious with us. However, for all that, we did not forgo having a fine supper, off the things we found in the town. That night, we were guarded by more than one hundred men, all armed with swords, scimitars, shields and arrows. They organised this in such a way that while some slept others kept watch and thus they took turns the whole night. The next day, which was Saturday, 2 June, these men arrived in the morning and they were already in a better mood, saying that, since the captain had told the king that he would bring his merchandise ashore, he should order it to be unloaded, since the custom of that country was that whatever ships came there should immediately deposit their goods ashore and all their people as well, and that until all the goods were sold, the merchant could not return again to the ship.
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