_ 471 _ out whatever concern concerns the King’s service, at the proper time. As for this insisting that I challenged him, there was no need for me to challenge someone over whom I told power to correct their faults. To be sure, he said things to me that I would willingly have set aside the captaincy and the power that I enjoyed over him, to show him that, although I was not his Commmander-in-Chief, he should not take to me in this way. As for when he professes to have said to me, in front of the cerame that he was not going to lose all the honour that he had gained, but that we should jump ashore and fight – indeed, he is such a gentlemen, and has served the king so well, that he is worthy of every honour and regard that can be given. Maybe he said what he claims, but I did not hear him say it, or rather I decided to force the Moors through the gates and into the castle. When I was selling in Manuel Telez’z boat, I shouted to Francisco de Tavora’s and to the “Frol de la Mar” that they should haul their prows onto the beach with mine. Then I ordered the boat in which I was sailing to beach in front of the cerame and the castle gates, where I killed many Moors. I forced them inside the castle and they abandoned
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