_ 162 _ our artillery he insisted that they return and attack they sunk fifteen or twenty of their terradas. When our men saw the men from the sunken terradas swim ashore to safety as did other Moors from the naos who were more afraid of our artillery than they were of the sea, they sensed victory. They got into the small boats they kept aboard their naos and pursued a crowd of swimmers, using their spears and swords upon them, so that the sea turned red with their blood. While this was going on Afonso de Albuquerque who was closer to the enemy’s, naos was able to sink two of them, one belonging to the Prince of Cambay. When he was attempting to enter the nao “Meri”, there was so much resistance that it took a long time to board it. The first to enter it was Pero Goncalves, chief pilot of the armada, together with a sailor called Pero Fernandas. There followed Gaspar Dias, Afonso d’ Albuquerque’s ensign who lost his right hand in the action. Afonso d’ Albuquerque gave him a pension of ten thousand reals for the rest of his life. After them were Jorge da Silverira, Gomes Teixeira, Lourenco da Silva, a Castilian nobleman, João Teixeira, João Mendes Botelaho, Nuno Vax de Castello-Branco, Goncalo Gueimado, João Mendas de Ilha, Pero Cam a young man from the king’s chamber and others.
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