_ 13 _ worthy captain, a nephew of Rais Nuruddin, who took up a position near the wells, where many people of the city lived, and he organized the wells and made many of them so that they had an emergency supply. Khwaja Attar had a large cistern made with his own hands from which he supplied the King’s palace. The Captain-in-Chief was told of this, so he sent Dom Antonio in his boat with sixty men, and João da Nova and Afonso Lopes da Acosta in their boats and skiffs, and he told Francisco de Tovora to anchor near the shore by the wells and to fire with his guns, and they had some thick masts that they had cut up and they greased their guns well. He ordered that Dom Antonio should be first to attack the hamlet with Joáo da Nova and Afonso Lopes behind him. This was arranged at night, and before dawn they left the ships and all the men disembarked in good order, some way from the Moors. They heard nothing and they did not keep a good watch, and so Dom Antonio, accompanied by reliable noblemen and the other Captains, took them by surprise and the Moors at one were in disarray, and so were the Moors who lived there. The houses were set on fire, and many were killed in them, and others fell wounded; but as day broke and the fleeing Moors saw that our men were
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