_ 385 _ it had been destroyed by our artillery, the captain was a gentleman and he had many good men with him. When our men saw this they went to attack it in some batels belonging to our fleet. Among these men were George Barreto de Castro, George da Silveira, Aires de Sousa Chichorro, Duarte de Sousa, Nicolao d’Andrade, Antonio da costa, the brother of Afonso Lopez da Costa, Lisuerte de Freitas, Antonio de Sa, Antonio Fragose, Joao Esgam, scribe of the armada, Jaime Teixeira, Lourenco da Silva, a Castilian nobleman, nuno Vas de castelo Branco, Joao Teixeira, son of Joao Pecanhade Alenquer, Gaspar Diaz, Afonso de Aobuquerque’s ensign, Janne Mendez Botelho, Lourenco da silva, Goncalo Queimado, Janne Mendaz, from the island of pero Cao and other, among whom was pero Goncalvez, the pilot, who went aboard first. They came across no resistance, as when the enemy saw them approaching the ship, fearing that they would also throw them into the sea, they all hid themselves beneath the deck, so that it appeared to the pilot when he climbed aboard the ship that there was no-one aboard. He informed those who were in the battels of this and they therefore decided not to board the ship and rather to follow those who were swimming. But when the people on the ship saw the pilot, the sailor Pero Fernandez and the
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