_ 14 _ few, they turned to the attack. There must have been forty horsemen and many archers, and they had a fierce battle with our men, with countless arrows fired. Dom Antonio was wounded by three arrows, and Nuno Vaz de Castello Branco, Brás da Silva, Gonçalo Queimado, and Jaime Mendes Botelho, Gomes Teixeira and others were all wounded by arrows, and there were more than five hundred wounds. The Moors were fighting so boldly because many more were arriving from the city. When the Captain-inChief saw our men hard pressed he came to help with Francisco de Tavora. They disembarked, and with the Captain-in-Chief encouraging them all, with trumpets sounding, and calling on St James, they made a great effort and /860/ they attacked the Moors so that only five horsemen stayed, who were in the van, and the rest turned and fled, breaking through the archers, who also fled, and those who were mounted rode over them all. Our men pursued them for a while, until the Captainin-Chief ordered them back. Then he ordered the seamen to remove the stones from the wells and throw into them the Moors cut in pieces, and the camels, which they killed, and the asses that carried water in skins through the city, and many disgusting things. Then the Captain-in-Chief went
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