_ 164 _ and fell upon the enemy. The first men to be killed were the ones on the litters, and with their death the others began to run away. As they fled, they caused confusion among those who were fighting Pero Barreto. These also fled, leaving some dead and wounded men in the field, and the Viceroy and all his men entered the city and pursued them up to the captain’s house it became known that the latter had been one of the first to run away from the battle into the hills. He had placed his wife on a litter (so that she could be carried away), but she was captured by our men near the captain’s house, where the common soldiers immediately killed her for, they spared nobody either in the houses or in the streets, no matter what their age might be. Some of them grabbed children by their legs from their mothers’ arms and dashed them against the walls killing them. No living thing was left alive, from this was born a curse which the Indians utter: “let the anger of the frangues(A) fall on you.” This anger is the first thing the merchants ask God to protect them from when they pray. This hunt lasted until sunset, and during it many Arabs were killed, although they fought bravely and none (A) The Portuguese.
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