_ 70 _ Meanwhile, Bernaldim Martim and other young men were busy as gunners, shooting from the ship’s guns which were all iron with chambers, and they began firing at the two nearest Moorish ships and destroyed them above decks, killing many people, while others jumped overboard to swim. Seeing that the ship had been taken, the Captainin-Chief turned about so that he could fire at other ships, and soon sent one to the bottom. Francisco de Tavora was between two Moorish ships and in some difficulty, but Fernão de Sousa who was in his boat with soldiers holed one ship with a camelo and sank it and then went in among the Moors who were swimming and killed many. But his boat was attacked by many terradas and some of his men were wounded, so the boat returned to his ship, which had already taken the other and set it on fire, and it was burning fiercely. Afonso Lopes da Costa had routed another large ship and set it alight and as they were fighting the fire they hauled in the towline they had in the sea. Antonio Lopes, who was with some soldiers in the boat of his brother, Afonso Lopes da Costa, engaged fiercely with the terradas as they came to shoot among the ships. Manuel Telles and Antonio do Campo, who were closer to land surrounded by many ships, had the hardest task because ten or twelve Moorish ships were firing at them, but they were not slow and although their boats, which
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