_ 36 _ but he would not burn the town if he would send him ten thousand xerafins, and they should be brought before midday or else they would leave him with what he found. But he received no reply, and many places were set on fire and by night everything was razed to the ground. When all the men had returned to their ships it was found that six were dead and many wounded by arrows. So that night they rested. The next day The Captain-in-Chief hoisted his flag, at which the Captains came to him and when all were seated on the quarter-deck he said to them “Sirs, I see that you have worked hard and deserve the many rewards that the King will give you for them. Nevertheless, as your Captainin-Chief, I must say to you what I am obliged to say. I beg you not to disobey me in what I command; because Afonso Lopes da Costa, I commanded you that after you went through the barricade you should scour through the town to join me. This you did not do, but following your own inclination went after the Moors right into the town and brought about a very difficult situation. If Our Lord had not helped you, I do not know what would have happened to you and your men. It could have gone so badly that you might all have been killed and left this fleet in such a sorry state that there would have been nothing for it but to sail away to India or return to Portugal.
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