_ 387 _ the fighting and captured all the Moors’ naos. Afonso de Albuquerque ordered them to set fire to those which were further away from our fleet, and those which were nearby were to be holed and sunk. At the same time he went with a skiff and a battle to the cerame, where the King and Khwaja Attar were waiting, appalled to see such destruction. They immediately went back into the city. The skiff came so close to the cream that those who were there fired arrows at Afonso de Albuquerque and others, wounding them. The most badly wounded was Emanuel Telez, who was hit in the face. From there, Afonso de Albuquerque ran the length of the river, ordering the cables of more than 30 sailing boats to be cut and fire to be put to them. The wind took these to the coast on the Persian side. He went on and reached a mooring-place for ships, where there were 140 tarred ships ready to set sail, and he ordered these to be burned, as well as a settlement nearby in which there was a very beautiful mosque. Our men were by this time so enthusiastic that they would have entered the city itself from that side if Afonso de Albuquerque had not stopped them, because there were so many fighting men inside, and so few of ours. Fearful of this, he made them return to the battles so that they could bombard the
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