_ 33 _ honoured nobleman, and the Captain-in-Chief went in his skiff. When they were all in the boats the Captain-inChief’s chaplain said the general confession from the top of the castle and gave them absolution. By this time, it was daybreak and they set off for the shore, because the Captain-in-Chief wanted the Moors to see our men armed. When they did, the Moors gave great shouts and began to fire many guns; but our men disembarked on the shore as they wanted, and the Captainin-Chief had the trumpets sounded they called on St. James, and each man went his way as had been planned. Our men had some difficulty in entering the barricades, with stones raining down on them from the gullies above, and the Moors fought hard with lances and arrows, wounding many of them. The Captains made haste to enter, and Afonso Lopes da Costa, and João da Nova and Manuel Telles entered and captured the barricade, killing and wounding many Moors, and the rest fled into the town, with Afonso Lopes da Costa pursuing them halfway into the town. The Captain-inChief also entered and took the other barricade, and as the Moors fled from him towards the town they came upon the rear of Afonso Lopes da Costa’s men and attacked them fiercely, whereupon the others who were fleeing came back
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