_ 165 _ of our men were killed. But as it was already late the Viceroy did not wish to go beyond the city and retired into a mosque with all his-men. This he fortified and here he knighted many men in honour of the day’s deed. In the morning, he ordered the captains to erect fortified barriers at the entrance of some streets, so that they could defend themselves in case the Arabs returned. After these had been erected, he let 20 men loose in each street, for them to sack the city. Everything they took they carried to the beach, from where it could be taken onto the ships and later divided among everyone, likewise they sacked the four Cambay ships, where they captured some Arabs whom the Viceroy kept. The ships were burnt. It is said that when the Viceroy saw, how much had been stolen from the city, and that there was still a great deal more to be taken, he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to control them and tell them to stop then the Arabs might return and, finding them busy with the sack of the city, would take their revenge, as sometimes happens. He therefore secretly ordered the city to be set on fire, and everything that had not yet been stolen was burnt, in order to disguise what he had done he pretended to be very upset at the fire and showed great diligence in trying to find the culprit. It is said that the goods which were burnt
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