_ 46 _ scaffolding of the wall. The berços knocked some of them down, the others all fled up towards the mountain, which was very precipitous, from where they threw down large rocks from which our men were protected by the wall. The Captain-in-Chief left Dom Antonio and Antonio do Campo to guard the gate and scoured the town, and he went to the mosques where he commanded that everyone should be killed; children, old people, all were killed, and the women had their noses and ears cut off, the men their right hands and noses, and he ordered that some well-built young men should be sent to the ship-masters to be loaded with irons and set to work in the ships. The Captain-in-Chief scoured the town until he came to the palm grove, and seeing such good wells he stayed to guard them, ordering the Captains that the men should take whatever they found and collect all the food they found, and especially they should stock up with water. This was done all day long with much diligence until sunset, when they reassembled. They found few goods but many things useful for ships, and no ships because they had all fled out to sea until our fleet had passed. But there was a good supply of ropes and particularly of heavy hawsers, and these the Captain-in-Chief ordered
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