_ 166 _ told was very young and had not been responsible for what had happened he was willing to return to his naos without inflicting more damage on that day. Because he could see that the fire had already broken out on three or four naos in the shipyard, he told Khwaja Attar to extinguish them, but warned him not to rekindle the anger of the Portuguese by not fulfilling his promises on the following day. After he had dispatched the Moors Afonso d’ Albuquerque and his captains retired to their naos. They were tired from the day’s labours which had fasted from nine in morning to just before sunset. Ten of our men had died and there were more than fifty wounded. It was later known that over sixteen hundred Moors had died, eight hundred bodies of whom appeared on the surface of the sea three days later. This turned out to be a most profitable catch for our seamen, because they went in their boats to collect the swords, some inlaid with gold and silver and the rings and jewels that the Moors wore. The most amazing thing that happened in this battle and which our men thought to have been a miracle was that many of the bodies of the Moors were pierced with their own arrows, for none of our own men used the how like they did.
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