_ 398 _ descending to fetch water. It was on the top of a hillock over the wells. The Connon was a Berco and there were twenty men captained by Lourenco da Silva, a Castilian noble, and mainly in appearance. The ordinary people of the city, when they learnt what had happened to the wells, in which their hope of life lay, were going about shouting that they would rather be captives than die of thirst. It was such a pitiful thing to behold that it was necessary for the king to there in person, together with Khwaja Attar and many horsemen and archers on foot to capture and unblock the wells over which the lives of all depended. Afonso de Albuquerque also rushed to the place , and in that incident, on one side and on the other, there was more bloodshed than there was water in the wells. A paige of Afonso de Albuquerque was killed and n attempting to save him Don Antonio d Noronha, Jorge da silveira and other nobles were struck by arrows, although their armor in some fashion protected their bodies, Goncalo Queimado, Afonso de Albuquerque’s standard bearer would lose an eye on account of an arrow splitting his eyebrow. Finally although the battle dd not involve the person of the king or of khwaja Attar, but only one Rais
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