_ 393 _ de Albuquerque, go to save your bring with your hundred men, and you will find there seven hundred archers who await you, With these words came others of similar nature from this man who was one of our men who had fled. When he saw the brig burning and they told him the words of the bad Christian who wanted him to go Afonso de Albuquerque’s spirit took fire. He saw how much had been caused by those five bad men, who had thrown in their lot with the Moors. Concerning this matter as dawn broke he sent Francisco de Tavora with some men in his nao to go burn some naos which were being built of those which he had ordered to set fire to when the day of the battle came. They were saved because the fire did little damage, and when Francisco de Tavora passed in front of the king’s houses a shot was fired which killed the nao’s pilot who he was taking with him in the small boat. If he had detained himself any longer in that place that shot would not have been the last, because other shots came after him. This Afonso de Albuquerque felt deeply, and he was now indignant at the little respect the Moors had for him. He again ordered the captains to go to some large houses
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