_ 472 _ the cerame. Antonio do Campo was then with me in his boat, but I saw no one else. From there, I sallied forth against the galleons that were fleeing, and then all the batels followed me. It was there that they wounded me, Manuel Telez and other nobles who were in the boat with me. With regard to his claim that he was the very first to jump ashore, he is one of those people who, when it comes to the subject of attack, always boasts of being among the first. Anyhow, it would be against my instructions and mandate, for anyone to leave first. That is for my standard to do, and since I have my men formed into a squad, no individual can go where he pleases, or disembark when it suits him. I am ordering Joao Nestao to keep Francisco de Tavor’s instrument. To avoid a fuss, there is no need to give him my reply nor for him to give his refutation; only to give him justice, for which he pleads in his instrument and I in my reply, before the King, our Lord, who delegated his power and jurisdiction and made de Commander-in-Chief of the fleet, because it is thus for King’s service that I, Joao Nesao, scribe of the fleet wrote this. Joao Nestao. I, Joao Nestao, scribe, testify that the statements of the
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