_ 163 _ As soon as they did so the enemy artillery thundered from both places, and everything started to become covered with smoke. The galleys seemed to burn, because they fired their artillery incessantly. They were then joined by the caravelles and soon afterwards by the ships, and the tremendous noise of their artillery made the sea, and the earth shake. While it was being fired the Viceroy disembarked at the place where the enemy had the greatest number of their pieces of artillery. These did not harm him at all, although the people in the Cambay ships did; because they shot many arrows at his men. In spite of this our men captured the bastion. The captain of the city took his men outside the stockade to meet the Viceroy these were mostly archers. They were accompanied by seven Arabs who seemed like important men and who were carried on litters and attended by men who held parasols over them; this gesture was meant to show scorn for our men. When the Viceroy saw them, he looked at some of his men and said that this was a sign that Our Lord would grant us a victory; the Arabs were so sure they would be defeated that they wanted to give an impression they were celebrating. With fierce resolve, the Viceroy on one side and Pero Barreto on the other gave the battle cry “Santiago!”
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