_ 25 _ The next day the Captain-in-Chief saw what sort of a place it was and the barricade set up on the island, and he ordered Antonio da Campo an Manuel Telles to capture the island while he would go with João da Nova to the other side, and Afonso Lopes da Costa and Francisco de Tavora would enter the town at the end where there was another barricade. He ordered everyone to keep together until they reached land: the boats with their berços, the Captain-inChief with his flag and the Captain with their pennants, sounding their trumpets. The ships did not fire because their shots could do nothing on land. Before the boats arrived Antonio da Campo and Manuel Telles reached the island the attacked the Moors, of whom there were about two hundred, meeting no resistance except for some showers of arrows which were the main defense the Moors had. Seeing the island under attack, the Captain-in-Chief hurried ashore and as they disembarked the Moors gave them much trouble with showers of arrows and stones, because their position was high up and the boats drew up beneath it. But as soon as our men set foot on the shore, they attacked the Moors in such a way that they abandoned the barricade, because Afonso Lopes da Costa and Francisco de Tavora had already entered the other side.
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