_ 408 _ ad he was knocked down and severely hurt. But Gomes Teixeira, Joao Teixeira, Nuno Vaz de Castello Branco and others came to his aid and freed him. Here the captains of the force at the houses was killed, at which the Moors dispersed and our man took charge of them. There were about eighty dead in the houses. Our men had taken their lives at the cost of their own blood. After receiving similar news of provisions coming Afonso de Albuquerque turned to a place on the island of Kishm called Meloal, where he also found resistance. This time of more than five hundred archers, he himself having only eighty men. The Moors had been sent there by the King of Lara in order to take some aid to Ormuz, and two of his nephews were captains there, who fought so bravely in the defence of the place that they both died with the greater part of the men they had. As they were such notable persons Afonso de Albuquerque ordered their bodies to be put in a terrada and with them a Mullah, a man of great age, whom they found in a mosque in the place. He sent Khwaja Attar a message concerning this saying he was sending him the defenders that had come to his aid
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