_ 140 _ twenty wounded, and the enemy had lost over seventy dead. Among them they found the governor himself and Afonso de Albuquerque was very upset about his death. It had not been his fault that there had been such an about turn on the part of the Moors, as he learnt from some of the prisoners taken. The governor was found in the middle of the field that lay between the walls of the town and the refuge we mentioned previously, and about him lay seven or eight Moors whom our men had cut to pieces. The boatswain from Afonso de Albuquerque’s ship, Jorge Fernandas had given him the first wound and Don Antonio de Noronha had then killed him without knowing who he was. It was in this plain that all the enemy dead were found, as was also some good booty, when the governor had come to ward Pero Vaz, he had asked that Afonso de Albuquerque remember him, so he found where the governor’s house was through a very old Mullah and in his honour, he sent Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco to go guard it so that it would not be sacked with the rest. The governor had no heirs because he was a eunuch, but so that it would be remembered how we honour those from whom we receive favours, Nuno Vaz thought it well that his house should be protected, and he left the old Mullah inside and later told Afonso de Albuquerque about it.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTg0NzAy