_ 76 _ it was daylight they all went to the flagship in boats ad skiffs, with the fighting men armed and their lances raised, and some men had two, and others were propped up along the sides to look as though there were more people; and the boats had shields and pavisades and falcões and berços, but they left the camelos because they were too heavy to take to land. The Captain-in-Chief was in his skiff with the royal flag, and in his ship’s boat was his nephew Dom Antonio, and in all the other boats went nobleman and gentlemen so that only the masters and mates, pilots and seamen were left in the ships. They were told to keep careful watch over the slaves, who were laden with irons in all the ships as the Captain-in-Chief commanded, so that none of them would escape to land and tell how few people were in the ships. He also strongly advised the Captains that as soon as they arrived in port their negroes should be put in irons. So, with boats and skiffs, with a great show of soldiers, and sounding trumpets, they went along the shore close to the houses along the sea, from whose flat roofs many arrows and stones were fired at them. At the end of the city on the left there was a suburb where there were many mud houses and other large, long buildings roofed with straw which sheltered many ships
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