_ 41 _ land if necessary, with axes, spades and levers, and all the equipment for fighting against the fortress. Then he equipped and ordered to be made ready three boats with banners and some noblemen and gentlemen, very elegantly dressed. In one of them was Afonso Lopes da Costa, in another Francisco de Tavora, and in the boat of the flagship was Dom Antonio de Noronha, his nephew, and Jorge Barreto de Castro, and Ayres de Sousa, Chichorro, and Duarte de Sousa, who carried the flag with the Portuguese arms which was to be raised on the keep of the castle, with five men to escort it. He ordered that the Captains and their men should not leave the boats until the flag was hoisted in its place, and that the Regents should also remain in the boats until the flag was in position. Then the Regents arrived in gala clothes, and they saw the preparations that had been made in the boats. They entered the boat with Dom Antonio and went to land, where the captain was waiting for them on the shore, also in gala dress, with many people in festive mood. Duarte de Sousa landed with flag and the five men and João Estão the notary, and they went to the castle with the captain walking in front of them with a rod, making the people move out of the way. There was no one in the fortress, and the captain alone entered with our men and with
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