_ 200 _ ladders arrived a long time before the artillery, and were placed against the walls so that our men could scale them. Afonso de Albuquerque's standard-bearer, whose name was Gaspar Dias, together with Job Queimado's proceeded to do so at once, followed by some others. When the Arabs saw our flag and the standard-bearer standing on the walls they cleared them, abandoned the gates and withdrew to the tower. Once the gates were left undefended our men were able to approach them safely and broke them down with the axes. The men who did this were Afonso de Noronha, his brother Antonio, Manuel Teles Barreto and Jeronimo de Lima. After the doors had been broken, they went in together with the rest of the men Don(A) Afonso sensed the Arabs had withdrawn to the tower and went to its doors with his brother Antonio, Jaime Teixeira, Pedro Alvares, Nuno Vaz de Castelo Branco and another man also called Pedro Alvares, thinking that their combined strength was sufficient to break them down. However, they were unable to do so and Jeronimo de Lima, Antonio de Azedvedo, João de Lima, Manuel de (A) "Don" is like a title which can be used when one refers to a person's christian name alone there is a similar equivalent in English in the title"Sir James""Sir Edward", etc.
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