_ 397 _ horsemen but also some of the people who were going to seek water in the night. In this way the wells were blocked up with the dead of the living, and even the horses that took them there. In going away from the captain of the guard of these wells gathered some who had escaped from the disaster but he was to meet with another, that of his death. At this time Don Antonio de Noronha came in a boat with men in support of the other captains. The place where Don Antonio met the captain of the guard was a narrow piece of land between the sea and a hill and a most suitable place for attacking him. He invited Don Antonio to go on shore to fight him, which he did killing him with ten or twelve archers who accompanied him to his death, whilst others who were also travelling with him left to save their lives. Afonso de Albuquerque when he heard of the good success of these captains immediately went there, fearing that the Moors night come to clean out the wells with a force of men, Although it was against the opinion of the captains who were disgusted with this war he still sent Afonso Lopes to stay in that place in his boat, in order to place a common in a pass where people were
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